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4-Color USC Gold Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color USC Gold Palette

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

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Vibrant 4 colors Warm Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #640D5F;
  --c-vibrant-2: #B12C00;
  --c-vibrant-3: #EB5B00;
  --c-vibrant-4: #FFCC00;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from USC Gold (#FFCC00) as its lightest tone to Amygdala Purple (#640D5F) as its darkest. It blends Amygdala Purple, Crimson Velvet Sunset, Poppy Flower and USC Gold 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 #640D5F on #FFCC00 at 7.87:1.

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

Color breakdown

Amygdala Purple #640D5F

RGB: rgb(100, 13, 95)
HSL: hsl(303, 77%, 22%)
Luminance: 0.038

Crimson Velvet Sunset #B12C00

RGB: rgb(177, 44, 0)
HSL: hsl(15, 100%, 35%)
Luminance: 0.112

Poppy Flower #EB5B00

RGB: rgb(235, 91, 0)
HSL: hsl(23, 100%, 46%)
Luminance: 0.251

USC Gold #FFCC00

RGB: rgb(255, 204, 0)
HSL: hsl(48, 100%, 50%)
Luminance: 0.645

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #640D5F on #FFCC00 7.87:1 AAA

Aa #B12C00 on #FFCC00 4.30:1 AA Large

Aa #640D5F on #EB5B00 3.42:1 AA Large

Aa #EB5B00 on #FFCC00 2.30:1 Fail

Aa #B12C00 on #EB5B00 1.87:1 Fail

Aa #640D5F on #B12C00 1.83:1 Fail

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