Shadow Fern color palette — #F5E4CC · #655800 · #272E00 · #1D1100 · #020100
A conversation between Olive and Deep Forest, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Parchment (#F5E4CC): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Olive (#655800): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Deep Forest (#272E00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
- Ink (#1D1100): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
- Black (#020100): quiet, heavy and certain.
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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