Ancient Cobalt color palette — #DADFED · #6765AC · #4B3361 · #3D0C1B · #1F0001

Slate and Royal Purple set the tone — five colors that lean into creativity and sophistication.

The five colors

• Silver (#DADFED): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Slate (#6765AC): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Royal Purple (#4B3361): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Onyx (#3D0C1B): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Ink (#1F0001): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of autumn markets.

Feels like: Creativity, Sophistication. Tagged vintage, retro, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Cobalt 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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