Shadow Fern color palette — #DAF0E5 · #535F0D · #1F3000 · #2E0100 · #010100

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

The five colors

• Honeydew (#DAF0E5): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Olive (#535F0D): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Deep Forest (#1F3000): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Ink (#2E0100): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Black (#010100): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury, Grounding. 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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