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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Dark · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Dark Monochromatic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #142850;
  --c-muted-2: #27496D;
  --c-muted-3: #0C7B93;
  --c-muted-4: #00A8CC;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from vivid cyan (#00A8CC) as its lightest tone to deep blue (#142850) as its darkest. It blends deep blue, dark blue, dark cyan and vivid cyan 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 #142850 on #00A8CC at 5.16:1.

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

Color breakdown

Deep blue #142850

RGB: rgb(20, 40, 80)
HSL: hsl(220, 60%, 20%)
Luminance: 0.023

Dark blue #27496D

RGB: rgb(39, 73, 109)
HSL: hsl(211, 47%, 29%)
Luminance: 0.063

Dark cyan #0C7B93

RGB: rgb(12, 123, 147)
HSL: hsl(191, 85%, 31%)
Luminance: 0.164

Vivid cyan #00A8CC

RGB: rgb(0, 168, 204)
HSL: hsl(191, 100%, 40%)
Luminance: 0.324

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #142850 on #00A8CC 5.16:1 AA

Aa #27496D on #00A8CC 3.31:1 AA Large

Aa #142850 on #0C7B93 2.95:1 Fail

Aa #27496D on #0C7B93 1.89:1 Fail

Aa #0C7B93 on #00A8CC 1.75:1 Fail

Aa #142850 on #27496D 1.56:1 Fail

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