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4-Color In the Shallows Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color In the Shallows Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #E4F2F0;
  --c-muted-2: #99D8D0;
  --c-muted-3: #70416D;
  --c-muted-4: #170A19;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Aqua Tint (#E4F2F0) as its lightest tone to Crow (#170A19) as its darkest. It blends Aqua Tint, In the Shallows, Burnt Orchid and Crow into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 4 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #E4F2F0 on #170A19 at 16.69:1.

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

Color breakdown

Aqua Tint #E4F2F0

RGB: rgb(228, 242, 240)
HSL: hsl(171, 35%, 92%)
Luminance: 0.863

In the Shallows #99D8D0

RGB: rgb(153, 216, 208)
HSL: hsl(172, 45%, 72%)
Luminance: 0.604

Burnt Orchid #70416D

RGB: rgb(112, 65, 109)
HSL: hsl(304, 27%, 35%)
Luminance: 0.083

Crow #170A19

RGB: rgb(23, 10, 25)
HSL: hsl(292, 43%, 7%)
Luminance: 0.005

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #E4F2F0 on #170A19 16.69:1 AAA

Aa #99D8D0 on #170A19 11.96:1 AAA

Aa #E4F2F0 on #70416D 6.85:1 AA

Aa #99D8D0 on #70416D 4.91:1 AA

Aa #70416D on #170A19 2.44:1 Fail

Aa #E4F2F0 on #99D8D0 1.40:1 Fail

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