Shadow Fern color palette — #F2E5D6 · #5A5C18 · #003408 · #170637 · #010100
A conversation between Olive and Deep Forest, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Parchment (#F2E5D6): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
- Olive (#5A5C18): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of fresh herbs.
- Deep Forest (#003408): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Deep Indigo (#170637): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Black (#010100): a grounded near-black with real depth.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Creativity, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury. Tagged botanical, earthy, muted, dark.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Shadow 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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