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Ocean & Sky Color Palettes

Curated ocean & sky palettes — each with four to eight complementary colors, hex codes, and RGB values. Sorted by most recently added.

Sunlit Shallows
Deep coastal water through teal, turquoise, pale aqua, and sand — the quintessential tropical bay shallow palette.
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Cloud Atlas
Eight tonal steps from storm gray and pewter sky through blue cloud, silver cloud, cirrus, and white peak — a complete overcast sky scale.
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Polar Dawn
Arctic night through ice blue, snow light, peach horizon, sunrise rose, and pale frost — colors of a polar winter dawn.
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Horizon at Dusk
Dusk indigo ocean through violet rose, warm peach, amber, and pale blush — the full color transition at the sea horizon.
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Coral Reef
Deep teal, turquoise, vivid coral, seafoam, and sand — the brilliant contrasts of a tropical coral reef.
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Monsoon
From deep storm navy through squall blue and rain mist to pale storm light — the layered atmospheric blues of a monsoon sky before the rain breaks.
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Bioluminescence
From deep ocean abyss through cold glow blue and bright bioluminescent cyan to pale glowing foam — the living light of the deep ocean.
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Tide Chart
From deep marine blue through sea green and seafoam to tidal sand and driftwood — the tonal range of a tidal shoreline from water to beach.
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Dawn Chorus
Five pre-dawn to sunrise sky colors — deep purple night, rose dawn, warm horizon orange, and first golden light — the color sequence of a clear morning sky.
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Deep Trench
Six ocean trench blues from abyssal black through deep sea, mid depth, shallowing, and sunlit surface blue — the vertical color profile of the deep ocean.
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Midnight Bay
Six night harbor blues from midnight black through dark harbor, bay blue, and city reflection to shore shimmer — the colors of a coastal city after dark.
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Lagoon at Noon
Overexposed midday light on shallow Caribbean water — turquoise, aqua, warm sand, and blinding foam white.
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Northern Lights
Aurora borealis in full display — electric greens, violets, and teal arcing across a polar night sky.
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Arctic Horizon
Ice blue, glacier, silver mist, frost, and snow white
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Caribbean Waters
Deep Caribbean, cobalt, lagoon, aqua foam, seafoam
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Coastal Fog
Weathered teal, sea mist, seafoam haze, driftwood, sand
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Deep Ocean
Abyss, midnight blue, ocean navy, steel blue, pale horizon
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Morning Sky
Horizon blue, sky, periwinkle, pale lavender, cloud white
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Stormy Sea
Thunder, steel, slate wave, pewter, and cloud gray
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Tropical Reef
Electric teal, bright aqua, coral, and sunlit sand
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