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4-Color Pieces of Eight Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Pieces of Eight Palette

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

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Vibrant 4 colors Warm Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #468966;
  --c-vibrant-2: #FFF0A5;
  --c-vibrant-3: #FFB03B;
  --c-vibrant-4: #B64926;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from Buttered Popcorn (#FFF0A5) as its lightest tone to Cattail Red (#B64926) as its darkest. It blends Mallard Green, Buttered Popcorn, Pieces of Eight and Cattail Red into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 1 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #FFF0A5 on #B64926 at 4.6:1.

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

Color breakdown

Mallard Green #468966

RGB: rgb(70, 137, 102)
HSL: hsl(149, 32%, 41%)
Luminance: 0.202

Buttered Popcorn #FFF0A5

RGB: rgb(255, 240, 165)
HSL: hsl(50, 100%, 82%)
Luminance: 0.863

Pieces of Eight #FFB03B

RGB: rgb(255, 176, 59)
HSL: hsl(36, 100%, 62%)
Luminance: 0.526

Cattail Red #B64926

RGB: rgb(182, 73, 38)
HSL: hsl(15, 65%, 43%)
Luminance: 0.149

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #FFF0A5 on #B64926 4.60:1 AA

Aa #468966 on #FFF0A5 3.63:1 AA Large

Aa #FFB03B on #B64926 2.90:1 Fail

Aa #468966 on #FFB03B 2.29:1 Fail

Aa #FFF0A5 on #FFB03B 1.58:1 Fail

Aa #468966 on #B64926 1.27:1 Fail

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