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4-Color Reef Waters Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Light · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Reef Waters Palette

4-color palette · Cool temperature · Light tone · Complementary harmony

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Muted 4 colors Cool Light Complementary

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #EEEEEE;
  --c-muted-2: #ACC6AA;
  --c-muted-3: #71A0A5;
  --c-muted-4: #77628C;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Super Silver (#EEEEEE) as its lightest tone to Super Violet (#77628C) as its darkest. It blends Super Silver, Belladonna’s Leaf, Reef Waters and Super Violet 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 #EEEEEE on #77628C at 4.63:1.

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

Color breakdown

Super Silver #EEEEEE

RGB: rgb(238, 238, 238)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 93%)
Luminance: 0.855

Belladonna’s Leaf #ACC6AA

RGB: rgb(172, 198, 170)
HSL: hsl(116, 20%, 72%)
Luminance: 0.521

Reef Waters #71A0A5

RGB: rgb(113, 160, 165)
HSL: hsl(186, 22%, 55%)
Luminance: 0.314

Super Violet #77628C

RGB: rgb(119, 98, 140)
HSL: hsl(270, 18%, 47%)
Luminance: 0.146

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #EEEEEE on #77628C 4.63:1 AA

Aa #ACC6AA on #77628C 2.92:1 Fail

Aa #EEEEEE on #71A0A5 2.49:1 Fail

Aa #71A0A5 on #77628C 1.86:1 Fail

Aa #EEEEEE on #ACC6AA 1.59:1 Fail

Aa #ACC6AA on #71A0A5 1.57:1 Fail

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