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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool temperature · Mixed tone · Monochromatic harmony

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Monochromatic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #2C3333;
  --c-muted-2: #395B64;
  --c-muted-3: #A5C9CA;
  --c-muted-4: #E7F6F2;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from pale teal (#E7F6F2) as its lightest tone to charcoal (#2C3333) as its darkest. It blends charcoal, muted cyan, light teal and pale teal 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 #2C3333 on #E7F6F2 at 11.58:1.

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

Color breakdown

Charcoal #2C3333

RGB: rgb(44, 51, 51)
HSL: hsl(180, 7%, 19%)
Luminance: 0.031

Muted cyan #395B64

RGB: rgb(57, 91, 100)
HSL: hsl(193, 27%, 31%)
Luminance: 0.093

Light teal #A5C9CA

RGB: rgb(165, 201, 202)
HSL: hsl(182, 26%, 72%)
Luminance: 0.540

Pale teal #E7F6F2

RGB: rgb(231, 246, 242)
HSL: hsl(164, 45%, 94%)
Luminance: 0.893

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #2C3333 on #E7F6F2 11.58:1 AAA

Aa #2C3333 on #A5C9CA 7.25:1 AAA

Aa #395B64 on #E7F6F2 6.61:1 AA

Aa #395B64 on #A5C9CA 4.14:1 AA Large

Aa #2C3333 on #395B64 1.75:1 Fail

Aa #A5C9CA on #E7F6F2 1.60:1 Fail

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