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About Maya Blue Pigment

Maya Blue is the famously durable Mesoamerican pigment — indigo bonded to palygorskite clay — painted onto lime-stucco mural walls at sites like Bonampak and Chichén Itzá. The authentic color reads from bright turquoise to dark greenish-blue, never the modern sky-azure named after it.

This design system honors the iconic dark-blue mural fields: deep, saturated turquoise grounds, lime-stucco warm-grey callouts, and mural earth-red ochre accents, carried by carved-stone serif titles and glyph-safe sans body.

Learn more about the Maya Blue Pigment style

Origin
Latin America — Mesoamerica (Maya region, Yucatán and Chiapas)
Era
pre-1900 (Classic / Postclassic Maya, roughly 8th century onward)
Key figures
Maya mural painters · Maya pigment-makers · Bonampak muralists · Chichén Itzá artisans
Movements
Mesoamerican mural painting · Glyphic temple art · Mineral-organic pigment craft

Maya Blue Pigment design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

CinzelHeadings
Noto SansBody
RufinaMono
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