Ancient Cerulean color palette — #EAEDE2 · #3E8AAC · #004161 · #002129 · #000A17

Built around Cerulean, softened by Navy — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Cream (#EAEDE2): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#3E8AAC): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Navy (#004161): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Midnight (#002129): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Ink (#000A17): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Calm, Sophistication. Tagged coastal, cool, light, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Cerulean 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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• Worn Cypress color palette (#EFF0E2, #78C0BC, #00777B, #005144, #00353B)
• Sapphire Chapel color palette (#F2F8E8, #7FBEF6, #006CCF, #005170, #102D6D)
• Washed Bronze Workshop color palette (#F0E3D5, #BA9550, #7B6E00, #492200, #1A0E00)
• Muted Cerulean Bloom color palette (#F4F6EF, #C0E7D3, #4394BB, #006F7D, #275145)
• Midnight Lagoon color palette (#F9E6E2, #972B00, #592100, #230D00, #0D0400)
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