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4-Color Boston Blue Palette

4-Color Boston Blue Palette

4-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Boston Blue Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Neutral Mixed Complementary
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #33313B;
  --c-muted-2: #4592AF;
  --c-muted-3: #E3C4A8;
  --c-muted-4: #F6F5F5;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from White Smoke (#F6F5F5) as its lightest tone to Deep Well (#33313B) as its darkest. It blends Deep Well, Boston Blue, Apricot Illusion and White Smoke 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 #33313B on #F6F5F5 at 11.74:1.

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

Color breakdown

Deep Well #33313B
RGB
rgb(51, 49, 59)
HSL
hsl(252, 9%, 21%)
Luminance
0.032
Boston Blue #4592AF
RGB
rgb(69, 146, 175)
HSL
hsl(196, 43%, 48%)
Luminance
0.249
Apricot Illusion #E3C4A8
RGB
rgb(227, 196, 168)
HSL
hsl(28, 51%, 77%)
Luminance
0.586
White Smoke #F6F5F5
RGB
rgb(246, 245, 245)
HSL
hsl(0, 5%, 96%)
Luminance
0.915

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #33313B on #F6F5F5 11.74:1 AAA
Aa #33313B on #E3C4A8 7.75:1 AAA
Aa #33313B on #4592AF 3.64:1 AA Large
Aa #4592AF on #F6F5F5 3.23:1 AA Large
Aa #4592AF on #E3C4A8 2.13:1 Fail
Aa #E3C4A8 on #F6F5F5 1.52:1 Fail

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