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4-Color Crescendo Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Crescendo Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Warm Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #E5DF88;
  --c-muted-2: #E8E8E8;
  --c-muted-3: #A37EBA;
  --c-muted-4: #4C4C4C;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Unicorn Silver (#E8E8E8) as its lightest tone to Shady Character (#4C4C4C) as its darkest. It blends Crescendo, Unicorn Silver, Lush Lilac and Shady Character 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 #E8E8E8 on #4C4C4C at 7.01:1.

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

Color breakdown

Crescendo #E5DF88

RGB: rgb(229, 223, 136)
HSL: hsl(56, 64%, 72%)
Luminance: 0.712

Unicorn Silver #E8E8E8

RGB: rgb(232, 232, 232)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 91%)
Luminance: 0.807

Lush Lilac #A37EBA

RGB: rgb(163, 126, 186)
HSL: hsl(277, 30%, 61%)
Luminance: 0.263

Shady Character #4C4C4C

RGB: rgb(76, 76, 76)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 30%)
Luminance: 0.072

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #E8E8E8 on #4C4C4C 7.01:1 AAA

Aa #E5DF88 on #4C4C4C 6.23:1 AA

Aa #E8E8E8 on #A37EBA 2.74:1 Fail

Aa #A37EBA on #4C4C4C 2.56:1 Fail

Aa #E5DF88 on #A37EBA 2.44:1 Fail

Aa #E5DF88 on #E8E8E8 1.12:1 Fail

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