Softworn Quarry color palette — #D3E7F0 · #5198B5 · #4B6681 · #492E5C · #2E142E

A conversation between Royal Purple and Cerulean, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#D3E7F0): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Cerulean (#5198B5): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Graphite (#4B6681): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Royal Purple (#492E5C): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Deep Indigo (#2E142E): A deep, shadowed, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Quarry 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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