Ancient Fern color palette — #DEFFE6 · #A9C0E6 · #9A87B3 · #5F642B · #002E20

A conversation between Olive and Heather, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Honeydew (#DEFFE6): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Sky (#A9C0E6): A luminous, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Heather (#9A87B3): A luminous, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Olive (#5F642B): A full-bodied, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Deep Forest (#002E20): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Fern 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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