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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Warm Mixed Monochromatic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #2C3639;
  --c-muted-2: #3F4E4F;
  --c-muted-3: #A27B5C;
  --c-muted-4: #DCD7C9;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from light yellow (#DCD7C9) as its lightest tone to deep cyan (#2C3639) as its darkest. It blends deep cyan, muted teal, muted orange and light yellow 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 #2C3639 on #DCD7C9 at 8.62:1.

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

Color breakdown

Deep cyan #2C3639

RGB: rgb(44, 54, 57)
HSL: hsl(194, 13%, 20%)
Luminance: 0.035

Muted teal #3F4E4F

RGB: rgb(63, 78, 79)
HSL: hsl(184, 11%, 28%)
Luminance: 0.071

Muted orange #A27B5C

RGB: rgb(162, 123, 92)
HSL: hsl(27, 28%, 50%)
Luminance: 0.226

Light yellow #DCD7C9

RGB: rgb(220, 215, 201)
HSL: hsl(44, 21%, 83%)
Luminance: 0.680

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #2C3639 on #DCD7C9 8.62:1 AAA

Aa #3F4E4F on #DCD7C9 6.05:1 AA

Aa #2C3639 on #A27B5C 3.26:1 AA Large

Aa #A27B5C on #DCD7C9 2.64:1 Fail

Aa #3F4E4F on #A27B5C 2.29:1 Fail

Aa #2C3639 on #3F4E4F 1.43:1 Fail

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