Ancient Cerulean color palette — #D9EAE9 · #0091AC · #436B9F · #6D3642 · #270900

Built around Cerulean, softened by Slate — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#D9EAE9): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Cerulean (#0091AC): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Slate (#436B9F): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Oxblood (#6D3642): A full-bodied, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Ink (#270900): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of toasted spice.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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