Ancient Plum color palette — #E5DBEC · #AE85AA · #9F4F7F · #703100 · #2F1B00

A conversation between Magenta Rose and Rust, giving this palette its sense of optimism and creativity.

The five colors

• Silver (#E5DBEC): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Dusty Rose (#AE85AA): A luminous, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Magenta Rose (#9F4F7F): A full-bodied, balanced pink — the color of a candy shop window.
• Rust (#703100): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Onyx (#2F1B00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.

Feels like: Optimism, Creativity, Balance. Tagged vintage, retro, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Plum 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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