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4-Color OU Crimson Red Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color OU Crimson Red Palette

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

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Vibrant 4 colors Warm Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #000B49;
  --c-vibrant-2: #9B0000;
  --c-vibrant-3: #FF7272;
  --c-vibrant-4: #FFB5B5;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from Young Salmon (#FFB5B5) as its lightest tone to Storm (#000B49) as its darkest. It blends Storm, OU Crimson Red, Georgia Peach and Young Salmon 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 #000B49 on #FFB5B5 at 10.95:1.

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

Color breakdown

Storm #000B49

RGB: rgb(0, 11, 73)
HSL: hsl(231, 100%, 14%)
Luminance: 0.007

OU Crimson Red #9B0000

RGB: rgb(155, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 30%)
Luminance: 0.070

Georgia Peach #FF7272

RGB: rgb(255, 114, 114)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 72%)
Luminance: 0.345

Young Salmon #FFB5B5

RGB: rgb(255, 181, 181)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 85%)
Luminance: 0.576

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #000B49 on #FFB5B5 10.95:1 AAA

Aa #000B49 on #FF7272 6.91:1 AA

Aa #9B0000 on #FFB5B5 5.23:1 AA

Aa #9B0000 on #FF7272 3.30:1 AA Large

Aa #000B49 on #9B0000 2.09:1 Fail

Aa #FF7272 on #FFB5B5 1.59:1 Fail

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