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4-Color Pastoral Palette

4-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Pastoral 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: #E9FADD;
  --c-muted-2: #B8E4C9;
  --c-muted-3: #3F5468;
  --c-muted-4: #42291C;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Pastoral (#E9FADD) as its lightest tone to Night Brown (#42291C) as its darkest. It blends Pastoral, Spearmints, Midnight Mosaic and Night Brown into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 4 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #E9FADD on #42291C at 12.25:1.

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

Color breakdown

Pastoral #E9FADD

RGB: rgb(233, 250, 221)
HSL: hsl(95, 74%, 92%)
Luminance: 0.909

Spearmints #B8E4C9

RGB: rgb(184, 228, 201)
HSL: hsl(143, 45%, 81%)
Luminance: 0.699

Midnight Mosaic #3F5468

RGB: rgb(63, 84, 104)
HSL: hsl(209, 25%, 33%)
Luminance: 0.084

Night Brown #42291C

RGB: rgb(66, 41, 28)
HSL: hsl(21, 40%, 18%)
Luminance: 0.028

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #E9FADD on #42291C 12.25:1 AAA

Aa #B8E4C9 on #42291C 9.57:1 AAA

Aa #E9FADD on #3F5468 7.16:1 AAA

Aa #B8E4C9 on #3F5468 5.59:1 AA

Aa #3F5468 on #42291C 1.71:1 Fail

Aa #E9FADD on #B8E4C9 1.28:1 Fail

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