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4-Color Mama Africa Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Analogous harmony

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4-Color Mama Africa Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Warm Mixed Analogous

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #0F0E0E;
  --c-muted-2: #541212;
  --c-muted-3: #8B9A46;
  --c-muted-4: #EEEEEE;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Super Silver (#EEEEEE) as its lightest tone to Black Sheep (#0F0E0E) as its darkest. It blends Black Sheep, Mama Africa, Café de Paris and Super Silver into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 4 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #0F0E0E on #EEEEEE at 16.61:1.

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

Color breakdown

Black Sheep #0F0E0E

RGB: rgb(15, 14, 14)
HSL: hsl(0, 3%, 6%)
Luminance: 0.005

Mama Africa #541212

RGB: rgb(84, 18, 18)
HSL: hsl(0, 65%, 20%)
Luminance: 0.024

Café de Paris #8B9A46

RGB: rgb(139, 154, 70)
HSL: hsl(71, 38%, 44%)
Luminance: 0.290

Super Silver #EEEEEE

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

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #0F0E0E on #EEEEEE 16.61:1 AAA

Aa #541212 on #EEEEEE 12.29:1 AAA

Aa #0F0E0E on #8B9A46 6.25:1 AA

Aa #541212 on #8B9A46 4.62:1 AA

Aa #8B9A46 on #EEEEEE 2.66:1 Fail

Aa #0F0E0E on #541212 1.35:1 Fail

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