Cerulean Drift color palette — #D9EDED · #5B7EA0 · #504B71 · #3D2C00 · #170E00

A conversation between Slate and Charcoal Brown, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#D9EDED): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Slate (#5B7EA0): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Charcoal Brown (#504B71): A full-bodied, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Espresso (#3D2C00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Ink (#170E00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Cerulean Drift 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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