Ancient Fern color palette — #F2D9E6 · #A78A44 · #455500 · #00332D · #020100

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

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#F2D9E6): A whisper-light, dusty rose — the color of a warm blush.
• Caramel (#A78A44): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Deep Olive (#455500): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Deep Forest (#00332D): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Black (#020100): quiet, heavy and certain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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