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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Dark · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool temperature · Dark tone · Complementary harmony

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Muted 4 colors Cool Dark Complementary

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #041C32;
  --c-muted-2: #04293A;
  --c-muted-3: #064663;
  --c-muted-4: #ECB365;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from orange (#ECB365) as its lightest tone to deep blue (#041C32) as its darkest. It blends deep blue, deep cyan and orange 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 #041C32 on #ECB365 at 9.2:1.

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

Color breakdown

Deep blue #041C32

RGB: rgb(4, 28, 50)
HSL: hsl(209, 85%, 11%)
Luminance: 0.011

Deep cyan #04293A

RGB: rgb(4, 41, 58)
HSL: hsl(199, 87%, 12%)
Luminance: 0.019

Deep cyan #064663

RGB: rgb(6, 70, 99)
HSL: hsl(199, 89%, 21%)
Luminance: 0.053

Orange #ECB365

RGB: rgb(236, 179, 101)
HSL: hsl(35, 78%, 66%)
Luminance: 0.510

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #041C32 on #ECB365 9.20:1 AAA

Aa #04293A on #ECB365 8.10:1 AAA

Aa #064663 on #ECB365 5.43:1 AA

Aa #041C32 on #064663 1.70:1 Fail

Aa #04293A on #064663 1.49:1 Fail

Aa #041C32 on #04293A 1.14:1 Fail

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