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4-Color Red Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Dark · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Red Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Warm Dark Monochromatic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #000000;
  --c-muted-2: #3D0000;
  --c-muted-3: #950101;
  --c-muted-4: #FF0000;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Red (#FF0000) as its lightest tone to Black (#000000) as its darkest. It blends Black, Biltong, Crimson Red and Red 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 #000000 on #FF0000 at 5.25:1.

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

Color breakdown

Black #000000

RGB: rgb(0, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 0%)
Luminance: 0.000

Biltong #3D0000

RGB: rgb(61, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 12%)
Luminance: 0.010

Crimson Red #950101

RGB: rgb(149, 1, 1)
HSL: hsl(0, 99%, 29%)
Luminance: 0.064

Red #FF0000

RGB: rgb(255, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 50%)
Luminance: 0.213

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #000000 on #FF0000 5.25:1 AA

Aa #3D0000 on #FF0000 4.38:1 AA Large

Aa #950101 on #FF0000 2.30:1 Fail

Aa #000000 on #950101 2.28:1 Fail

Aa #3D0000 on #950101 1.90:1 Fail

Aa #000000 on #3D0000 1.20:1 Fail

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