Ancient Petrol color palette — #C5E5F5 · #7CA3BE · #4974A3 · #4A4762 · #2A1E3D

A conversation between Slate and Blue Fog, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#C5E5F5): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Blue Fog (#7CA3BE): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Slate (#4974A3): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Charcoal Brown (#4A4762): A full-bodied, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Deep Indigo (#2A1E3D): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Petrol 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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