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.
- 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
Typography
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