Shadow Fern color palette — #F0E5D3 · #615A00 · #242F00 · #1C1200 · #020100

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#F0E5D3): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Olive (#615A00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Deep Forest (#242F00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Ink (#1C1200): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• 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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