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4-Color Placebo Blue Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Light · Analogous harmony

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4-Color Placebo Blue Palette

4-color palette · Cool temperature · Light tone · Analogous harmony

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Muted 4 colors Cool Light Analogous

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #ECF2FF;
  --c-muted-2: #3E54AC;
  --c-muted-3: #655DBB;
  --c-muted-4: #BFACE2;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Placebo Blue (#ECF2FF) as its lightest tone to Blasphemous Blue (#3E54AC) as its darkest. It blends Placebo Blue, Blasphemous Blue, Bluish Purple Anemone and Perfume into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 2 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #ECF2FF on #3E54AC at 6.1:1.

A versatile palette suitable for marketing pages, product hero blocks, illustrations, and accent UI states.

Color breakdown

Placebo Blue #ECF2FF

RGB: rgb(236, 242, 255)
HSL: hsl(221, 100%, 96%)
Luminance: 0.886

Blasphemous Blue #3E54AC

RGB: rgb(62, 84, 172)
HSL: hsl(228, 47%, 46%)
Luminance: 0.103

Bluish Purple Anemone #655DBB

RGB: rgb(101, 93, 187)
HSL: hsl(245, 41%, 55%)
Luminance: 0.142

Perfume #BFACE2

RGB: rgb(191, 172, 226)
HSL: hsl(261, 48%, 78%)
Luminance: 0.461

Contrast & accessibility

2 of 6 color pairings meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text.

Aa #ECF2FF on #3E54AC 6.10:1 AA

Aa #ECF2FF on #655DBB 4.88:1 AA

Aa #3E54AC on #BFACE2 3.33:1 AA Large

Aa #655DBB on #BFACE2 2.66:1 Fail

Aa #ECF2FF on #BFACE2 1.83:1 Fail

Aa #3E54AC on #655DBB 1.25:1 Fail

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