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4-Color Tartrazine Palette

4-Color Tartrazine Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Tartrazine Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #45B7B8;
  --c-muted-2: #706381;
  --c-muted-3: #2C3848;
  --c-muted-4: #F7DE1C;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Tartrazine (#F7DE1C) as its lightest tone to German Liquorice (#2C3848) as its darkest. It blends Arctic Green, Victorian Iris, German Liquorice and Tartrazine 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 #2C3848 on #F7DE1C at 8.73:1.

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

Color breakdown

Arctic Green #45B7B8
RGB
rgb(69, 183, 184)
HSL
hsl(181, 45%, 50%)
Luminance
0.386
Victorian Iris #706381
RGB
rgb(112, 99, 129)
HSL
hsl(266, 13%, 45%)
Luminance
0.140
German Liquorice #2C3848
RGB
rgb(44, 56, 72)
HSL
hsl(214, 24%, 23%)
Luminance
0.038
Tartrazine #F7DE1C
RGB
rgb(247, 222, 28)
HSL
hsl(53, 93%, 54%)
Luminance
0.721

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #2C3848 on #F7DE1C 8.73:1 AAA
Aa #45B7B8 on #2C3848 4.94:1 AA
Aa #706381 on #F7DE1C 4.07:1 AA Large
Aa #45B7B8 on #706381 2.30:1 Fail
Aa #706381 on #2C3848 2.15:1 Fail
Aa #45B7B8 on #F7DE1C 1.77:1 Fail

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