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4-Color Red Pegasus Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Analogous harmony

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4-Color Red Pegasus Palette

4-color palette · Warm temperature · Mixed tone · Analogous harmony

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Vibrant 4 colors Warm Mixed Analogous

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #DC0000;
  --c-vibrant-2: #850000;
  --c-vibrant-3: #FFDB89;
  --c-vibrant-4: #FFF6C3;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from Spring Buttercup (#FFF6C3) as its lightest tone to Dark Red (#850000) as its darkest. It blends Red Pegasus, Dark Red, Big Bus Yellow and Spring Buttercup into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #850000 on #FFF6C3 at 9.62:1.

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

Color breakdown

Red Pegasus #DC0000

RGB: rgb(220, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 43%)
Luminance: 0.152

Dark Red #850000

RGB: rgb(133, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 26%)
Luminance: 0.050

Big Bus Yellow #FFDB89

RGB: rgb(255, 219, 137)
HSL: hsl(42, 100%, 77%)
Luminance: 0.737

Spring Buttercup #FFF6C3

RGB: rgb(255, 246, 195)
HSL: hsl(51, 100%, 88%)
Luminance: 0.911

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #850000 on #FFF6C3 9.62:1 AAA

Aa #850000 on #FFDB89 7.88:1 AAA

Aa #DC0000 on #FFF6C3 4.75:1 AA

Aa #DC0000 on #FFDB89 3.89:1 AA Large

Aa #DC0000 on #850000 2.02:1 Fail

Aa #FFDB89 on #FFF6C3 1.22:1 Fail

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