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4-Color Mellow Dandelion Palette

4-Color Mellow Dandelion Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Light · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Mellow Dandelion Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Light Complementary
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #F8DC81;
  --c-muted-2: #EFF7E1;
  --c-muted-3: #A2D0C1;
  --c-muted-4: #214151;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Lemon Sugar (#EFF7E1) as its lightest tone to Reflecting Pond (#214151) as its darkest. It blends Mellow Dandelion, Lemon Sugar, Tareyton and Reflecting Pond 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 #EFF7E1 on #214151 at 9.83:1.

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

Color breakdown

Mellow Dandelion #F8DC81
RGB
rgb(248, 220, 129)
HSL
hsl(46, 89%, 74%)
Luminance
0.727
Lemon Sugar #EFF7E1
RGB
rgb(239, 247, 225)
HSL
hsl(82, 58%, 93%)
Luminance
0.903
Tareyton #A2D0C1
RGB
rgb(162, 208, 193)
HSL
hsl(160, 33%, 73%)
Luminance
0.566
Reflecting Pond #214151
RGB
rgb(33, 65, 81)
HSL
hsl(200, 42%, 22%)
Luminance
0.047

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #EFF7E1 on #214151 9.83:1 AAA
Aa #F8DC81 on #214151 8.01:1 AAA
Aa #A2D0C1 on #214151 6.36:1 AA
Aa #EFF7E1 on #A2D0C1 1.55:1 Fail
Aa #F8DC81 on #A2D0C1 1.26:1 Fail
Aa #F8DC81 on #EFF7E1 1.23:1 Fail

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