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4-Color Obsidian Shell Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Obsidian Shell Palette

4-color palette · Warm temperature · Mixed tone · Triadic harmony

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Muted 4 colors Warm Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #3F1263;
  --c-muted-2: #986EAD;
  --c-muted-3: #D8CBBB;
  --c-muted-4: #F2F2F2;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Bleached Silk (#F2F2F2) as its lightest tone to Obsidian Shell (#3F1263) as its darkest. It blends Obsidian Shell, Crown Jewels, Gentle Shadows and Bleached Silk 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 #3F1263 on #F2F2F2 at 12.69:1.

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

Color breakdown

Obsidian Shell #3F1263

RGB: rgb(63, 18, 99)
HSL: hsl(273, 69%, 23%)
Luminance: 0.024

Crown Jewels #986EAD

RGB: rgb(152, 110, 173)
HSL: hsl(280, 28%, 55%)
Luminance: 0.208

Gentle Shadows #D8CBBB

RGB: rgb(216, 203, 187)
HSL: hsl(33, 27%, 79%)
Luminance: 0.609

Bleached Silk #F2F2F2

RGB: rgb(242, 242, 242)
HSL: hsl(0, 0%, 95%)
Luminance: 0.888

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #3F1263 on #F2F2F2 12.69:1 AAA

Aa #3F1263 on #D8CBBB 8.92:1 AAA

Aa #986EAD on #F2F2F2 3.63:1 AA Large

Aa #3F1263 on #986EAD 3.50:1 AA Large

Aa #986EAD on #D8CBBB 2.55:1 Fail

Aa #D8CBBB on #F2F2F2 1.42:1 Fail

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