Softworn Basalt color palette — #D4E4EB · #7CB3D8 · #526C91 · #5A3862 · #1B0C2A
Built around Mulberry, softened by Cyan — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.
The five colors
- Frost (#D4E4EB): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Cyan (#7CB3D8): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
- Slate (#526C91): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Mulberry (#5A3862): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
- Deep Indigo (#1B0C2A): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.
Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Sophistication. Tagged vintage, retro, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Softworn 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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