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4-Color Thundercloud Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Thundercloud Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Monochromatic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #3E3E3E;
  --c-muted-2: #405559;
  --c-muted-3: #68868C;
  --c-muted-4: #EDEDED;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from White Edgar (#EDEDED) as its lightest tone to Black Lacquer (#3E3E3E) as its darkest. It blends Black Lacquer, Casal, Thundercloud and White Edgar 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 #3E3E3E on #EDEDED at 9.14:1.

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

Color breakdown

Black Lacquer #3E3E3E

RGB: rgb(62, 62, 62)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 24%)
Luminance: 0.048

Casal #405559

RGB: rgb(64, 85, 89)
HSL: hsl(190, 16%, 30%)
Luminance: 0.083

Thundercloud #68868C

RGB: rgb(104, 134, 140)
HSL: hsl(190, 15%, 48%)
Luminance: 0.219

White Edgar #EDEDED

RGB: rgb(237, 237, 237)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 93%)
Luminance: 0.847

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #3E3E3E on #EDEDED 9.14:1 AAA

Aa #405559 on #EDEDED 6.74:1 AA

Aa #68868C on #EDEDED 3.34:1 AA Large

Aa #3E3E3E on #68868C 2.74:1 Fail

Aa #405559 on #68868C 2.02:1 Fail

Aa #3E3E3E on #405559 1.36:1 Fail

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