Softworn Basalt color palette — #F3E3E8 · #8E6391 · #6F3E5C · #552000 · #1C0D00

Espresso and Slate set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and creativity.

The five colors

• Rose Water (#F3E3E8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Slate (#8E6391): A full-bodied, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Mulberry (#6F3E5C): A full-bodied, dusty pink — the color of a candy shop window.
• Espresso (#552000): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Ink (#1C0D00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.

Feels like: Optimism, 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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