Softworn Cerulean color palette — #CBF3F6 · #2E94AB · #3D6F8E · #52456D · #1E0025
A conversation between Cerulean and Ink, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.
The five colors
- Frost (#CBF3F6): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Cerulean (#2E94AB): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Slate (#3D6F8E): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
- Charcoal Brown (#52456D): A full-bodied, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Ink (#1E0025): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Calm, Balance. Tagged vintage, retro, muted, cool.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Softworn Cerulean 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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