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4-Color Traditional Blue Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Traditional Blue 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: #1C658C;
  --c-muted-2: #398AB9;
  --c-muted-3: #D8D2CB;
  --c-muted-4: #EEEEEE;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Super Silver (#EEEEEE) as its lightest tone to Traditional Blue (#1C658C) as its darkest. It blends Traditional Blue, Pat-A-Pep, Light Ghosting and Super Silver into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 1 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #1C658C on #EEEEEE at 5.5:1.

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

Color breakdown

Traditional Blue #1C658C

RGB: rgb(28, 101, 140)
HSL: hsl(201, 67%, 33%)
Luminance: 0.115

Pat-A-Pep #398AB9

RGB: rgb(57, 138, 185)
HSL: hsl(202, 53%, 47%)
Luminance: 0.226

Light Ghosting #D8D2CB

RGB: rgb(216, 210, 203)
HSL: hsl(32, 14%, 82%)
Luminance: 0.650

Super Silver #EEEEEE

RGB: rgb(238, 238, 238)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 93%)
Luminance: 0.855

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #1C658C on #EEEEEE 5.50:1 AA

Aa #1C658C on #D8D2CB 4.26:1 AA Large

Aa #398AB9 on #EEEEEE 3.28:1 AA Large

Aa #398AB9 on #D8D2CB 2.54:1 Fail

Aa #1C658C on #398AB9 1.67:1 Fail

Aa #D8D2CB on #EEEEEE 1.29:1 Fail

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