Adobe Spectrum
Adobe Spectrum's color system — the design system that powers Adobe's product surfaces (Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Experience Cloud). Spectrum is built on tonally-paired neutral and chromatic scales (gray, blue, red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, celery, green, seafoam, cyan, indigo, purple, fuchsia, magenta, pink, brown, silver, cinnamon, turquoise), each running 100 → 1600 with a light-mode hex and a dark-mode counterpart. The brand accent on product surfaces is Spectrum Blue 900 (#3B63FB light / #5681FF dark) — the same swatch that backs the `accent-background-color-default` token. Semantic role tokens (positive, negative, notice, informative) map onto the same scales: positive=green-900, negative=red-900, notice=orange-900, informative=blue-900.
Swatches
gray
misc
blue
red
orange
yellow
chartreuse
celery
green
seafoam
cyan
indigo
purple
fuchsia
magenta
pink
brown
silver
cinnamon
turquoise
Mode role mappings
Light mode (15 roles)
→ blue-900 → blue-1000 → gray-25 → gray-300 → red-900 → blue-900 → blue-1000 → green-900 → gray-100 → gray-25 → gray-900 → gray-700 → gray-600 → orange-900 → orange-700 Dark mode (15 roles)
→ blue-900-dark → blue-1000-dark → gray-25-dark → gray-300-dark → red-900-dark → blue-900-dark → blue-1000-dark → green-900-dark → gray-100-dark → gray-50-dark → gray-900-dark → gray-700-dark → gray-800-dark → orange-900-dark → orange-900 Provenance
- Source
- https://github.com/adobe/spectrum-css/blob/main/tokens/dist/json/tokens.json
- License
Apache-2.0- Attribution
- Adobe Spectrum design tokens, Copyright Adobe Inc., licensed under Apache-2.0. Hex values mirrored from the Spectrum CSS token export (`tokens/dist/json/tokens.json`) on the `main` branch. Adobe, Adobe Spectrum, and associated marks are property of Adobe Inc.
- Imported
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2026-05-19(upstream version @spectrum-css/tokens main@2026-05) - Notes
- Full Spectrum grid captured 2026-05-19: 18 chromatic families (blue, red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, celery, green, seafoam, cyan, indigo, purple, fuchsia, magenta, pink, brown, silver, cinnamon, turquoise) at 16 stops each (100..1600), plus the gray neutral scale (25, 50, 75, 100..1000). Spectrum is dual-mode by construction — every stop has both a light and dark hex. The catalogue captures both as separate swatches (e.g., `blue-900` for light, `blue-900-dark` for dark) so that mode mappings can name a single swatch ID per role.