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4-Color Cotton Indigo Palette

4-Color Cotton Indigo Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Cotton Indigo Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #E8DED2;
  --c-muted-2: #A3D2CA;
  --c-muted-3: #5EAAA8;
  --c-muted-4: #056676;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Reliable White (#E8DED2) as its lightest tone to Cotton Indigo (#056676) as its darkest. It blends Reliable White, Cold Turquoise, Veranda and Cotton Indigo 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 #E8DED2 on #056676 at 4.99:1.

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

Color breakdown

Reliable White #E8DED2
RGB
rgb(232, 222, 210)
HSL
hsl(33, 32%, 87%)
Luminance
0.741
Cold Turquoise #A3D2CA
RGB
rgb(163, 210, 202)
HSL
hsl(170, 34%, 73%)
Luminance
0.581
Veranda #5EAAA8
RGB
rgb(94, 170, 168)
HSL
hsl(178, 31%, 52%)
Luminance
0.340
Cotton Indigo #056676
RGB
rgb(5, 102, 118)
HSL
hsl(188, 92%, 24%)
Luminance
0.108

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #E8DED2 on #056676 4.99:1 AA
Aa #A3D2CA on #056676 3.99:1 AA Large
Aa #5EAAA8 on #056676 2.46:1 Fail
Aa #E8DED2 on #5EAAA8 2.03:1 Fail
Aa #A3D2CA on #5EAAA8 1.62:1 Fail
Aa #E8DED2 on #A3D2CA 1.25:1 Fail

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