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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Dark · Analogous harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Dark Analogous

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #151515;
  --c-muted-2: #301B3F;
  --c-muted-3: #3C415C;
  --c-muted-4: #B4A5A5;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from light gray (#B4A5A5) as its lightest tone to charcoal (#151515) as its darkest. It blends charcoal, deep purple, muted blue and light gray into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 2 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #151515 on #B4A5A5 at 7.71:1.

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

Color breakdown

Charcoal #151515

RGB: rgb(21, 21, 21)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 8%)
Luminance: 0.008

Deep purple #301B3F

RGB: rgb(48, 27, 63)
HSL: hsl(275, 40%, 18%)
Luminance: 0.018

Muted blue #3C415C

RGB: rgb(60, 65, 92)
HSL: hsl(231, 21%, 30%)
Luminance: 0.055

Light gray #B4A5A5

RGB: rgb(180, 165, 165)
HSL: hsl(0, 9%, 68%)
Luminance: 0.393

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #151515 on #B4A5A5 7.71:1 AAA

Aa #301B3F on #B4A5A5 6.55:1 AA

Aa #3C415C on #B4A5A5 4.22:1 AA Large

Aa #151515 on #3C415C 1.83:1 Fail

Aa #301B3F on #3C415C 1.55:1 Fail

Aa #151515 on #301B3F 1.18:1 Fail

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