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4-Color Freshman Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Freshman Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Warm Mixed Complementary

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #5D414D;
  --c-muted-2: #7E858B;
  --c-muted-3: #ABD4C1;
  --c-muted-4: #E5F6C6;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Freshman (#E5F6C6) as its lightest tone to Majestic (#5D414D) as its darkest. It blends Majestic, Serious Cloud, Southern Belle and Freshman 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 #5D414D on #E5F6C6 at 7.87:1.

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

Color breakdown

Majestic #5D414D

RGB: rgb(93, 65, 77)
HSL: hsl(334, 18%, 31%)
Luminance: 0.066

Serious Cloud #7E858B

RGB: rgb(126, 133, 139)
HSL: hsl(208, 5%, 52%)
Luminance: 0.231

Southern Belle #ABD4C1

RGB: rgb(171, 212, 193)
HSL: hsl(152, 32%, 75%)
Luminance: 0.596

Freshman #E5F6C6

RGB: rgb(229, 246, 198)
HSL: hsl(81, 73%, 87%)
Luminance: 0.867

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #5D414D on #E5F6C6 7.87:1 AAA

Aa #5D414D on #ABD4C1 5.55:1 AA

Aa #7E858B on #E5F6C6 3.26:1 AA Large

Aa #5D414D on #7E858B 2.41:1 Fail

Aa #7E858B on #ABD4C1 2.30:1 Fail

Aa #ABD4C1 on #E5F6C6 1.42:1 Fail

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