Ancient Basin color palette — #E8F6EF · #9AA679 · #51702D · #5E3F16 · #00231A

Olive and Cocoa set the tone — five colors that lean into nature and growth.

The five colors

• Cream (#E8F6EF): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Sage (#9AA679): A luminous, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Olive (#51702D): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Cocoa (#5E3F16): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Onyx (#00231A): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Optimism, Sophistication, Grounding. Tagged botanical, earthy, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Basin 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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