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4-Color Bloody Pico-8 Palette

4-Color Bloody Pico-8 Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Dark · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Bloody Pico-8 Palette

4-color palette · Warm temperature · Dark tone · Monochromatic harmony

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Muted 4 colors Warm Dark Monochromatic
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #FF004D;
  --c-muted-2: #9D0B28;
  --c-muted-3: #5A082D;
  --c-muted-4: #33030D;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Bloody Pico-8 (#FF004D) as its lightest tone to Ilvaite Black (#33030D) as its darkest. It blends Bloody Pico-8, Petal of a Dying Rose, Mulberry Wood and Ilvaite Black into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 1 meets the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #FF004D on #33030D at 4.62:1.

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

Color breakdown

Bloody Pico-8 #FF004D
RGB
rgb(255, 0, 77)
HSL
hsl(342, 100%, 50%)
Luminance
0.218
Petal of a Dying Rose #9D0B28
RGB
rgb(157, 11, 40)
HSL
hsl(348, 87%, 33%)
Luminance
0.076
Mulberry Wood #5A082D
RGB
rgb(90, 8, 45)
HSL
hsl(333, 84%, 19%)
Luminance
0.025
Ilvaite Black #33030D
RGB
rgb(51, 3, 13)
HSL
hsl(348, 89%, 11%)
Luminance
0.008

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #FF004D on #33030D 4.62:1 AA
Aa #FF004D on #5A082D 3.56:1 AA Large
Aa #9D0B28 on #33030D 2.17:1 Fail
Aa #FF004D on #9D0B28 2.13:1 Fail
Aa #9D0B28 on #5A082D 1.67:1 Fail
Aa #5A082D on #33030D 1.30:1 Fail

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