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4-Color Calabash Palette

4-Color Calabash Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Calabash Palette

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

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Vibrant 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #F6EB9A;
  --c-vibrant-2: #5853BC;
  --c-vibrant-3: #362391;
  --c-vibrant-4: #1C0C59;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from Calabash (#F6EB9A) as its lightest tone to Indigo Sloth (#1C0C59) as its darkest. It blends Calabash, Circumorbital Ring, Gentian Blue and Indigo Sloth into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #F6EB9A on #1C0C59 at 13.86:1.

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

Color breakdown

Calabash #F6EB9A
RGB
rgb(246, 235, 154)
HSL
hsl(53, 84%, 78%)
Luminance
0.813
Circumorbital Ring #5853BC
RGB
rgb(88, 83, 188)
HSL
hsl(243, 44%, 53%)
Luminance
0.119
Gentian Blue #362391
RGB
rgb(54, 35, 145)
HSL
hsl(250, 61%, 35%)
Luminance
0.040
Indigo Sloth #1C0C59
RGB
rgb(28, 12, 89)
HSL
hsl(252, 76%, 20%)
Luminance
0.012

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #F6EB9A on #1C0C59 13.86:1 AAA
Aa #F6EB9A on #362391 9.56:1 AAA
Aa #F6EB9A on #5853BC 5.11:1 AA
Aa #5853BC on #1C0C59 2.71:1 Fail
Aa #5853BC on #362391 1.87:1 Fail
Aa #362391 on #1C0C59 1.45:1 Fail

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