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4-Color Sour Palette

4-Color Sour Palette

4-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Sour Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Neutral Mixed Triadic
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #E6F0B6;
  --c-muted-2: #B8E9C0;
  --c-muted-3: #6384B3;
  --c-muted-4: #684949;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Sour (#E6F0B6) as its lightest tone to Chocolate Eclair (#684949) as its darkest. It blends Sour, Slime Lime, Glaucous and Chocolate Eclair 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 #E6F0B6 on #684949 at 6.64:1.

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

Color breakdown

Sour #E6F0B6
RGB
rgb(230, 240, 182)
HSL
hsl(70, 66%, 83%)
Luminance
0.825
Slime Lime #B8E9C0
RGB
rgb(184, 233, 192)
HSL
hsl(130, 53%, 82%)
Luminance
0.723
Glaucous #6384B3
RGB
rgb(99, 132, 179)
HSL
hsl(215, 34%, 55%)
Luminance
0.224
Chocolate Eclair #684949
RGB
rgb(104, 73, 73)
HSL
hsl(0, 18%, 35%)
Luminance
0.082

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #E6F0B6 on #684949 6.64:1 AA
Aa #B8E9C0 on #684949 5.86:1 AA
Aa #E6F0B6 on #6384B3 3.19:1 AA Large
Aa #B8E9C0 on #6384B3 2.82:1 Fail
Aa #6384B3 on #684949 2.08:1 Fail
Aa #E6F0B6 on #B8E9C0 1.13:1 Fail

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