Ancient Basin color palette — #FFEADA · #826810 · #2E3E00 · #330A46 · #150E00
A conversation between Deep Indigo and Walnut, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Cream (#FFEADA): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Walnut (#826810): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
- Deep Olive (#2E3E00): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Deep Indigo (#330A46): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Ink (#150E00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Optimism, Creativity, Balance, 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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