Ancient Basalt color palette — #D6EEED · #429087 · #1B5E70 · #511043 · #30000C

Royal Purple and Ink set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#D6EEED): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Fern (#429087): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Peacock (#1B5E70): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Royal Purple (#511043): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Ink (#30000C): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Balance. Tagged vintage, retro, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Basalt into a complete token system: semantic roles from primary to success, an 11-stop OKLCH scale per role, a WCAG AA/AAA and APCA contrast matrix, an auto-derived dark mode and 11 export formats including CSS custom properties, Tailwind, Figma Variables and shadcn/ui.

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