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4-Color Columbia Blue Palette

4-Color Columbia Blue Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Columbia Blue Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Triadic
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #61BBB6;
  --c-muted-2: #A1DFFF;
  --c-muted-3: #AD56CD;
  --c-muted-4: #4A3B85;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Columbia Blue (#A1DFFF) as its lightest tone to Nauseous Blue (#4A3B85) as its darkest. It blends Hygiene Green, Columbia Blue, Ripe Lavander and Nauseous Blue 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 #A1DFFF on #4A3B85 at 6.44:1.

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

Color breakdown

Hygiene Green #61BBB6
RGB
rgb(97, 187, 182)
HSL
hsl(177, 40%, 56%)
Luminance
0.415
Columbia Blue #A1DFFF
RGB
rgb(161, 223, 255)
HSL
hsl(200, 100%, 82%)
Luminance
0.676
Ripe Lavander #AD56CD
RGB
rgb(173, 86, 205)
HSL
hsl(284, 54%, 57%)
Luminance
0.200
Nauseous Blue #4A3B85
RGB
rgb(74, 59, 133)
HSL
hsl(252, 39%, 38%)
Luminance
0.063

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #A1DFFF on #4A3B85 6.44:1 AA
Aa #61BBB6 on #4A3B85 4.12:1 AA Large
Aa #A1DFFF on #AD56CD 2.91:1 Fail
Aa #AD56CD on #4A3B85 2.21:1 Fail
Aa #61BBB6 on #AD56CD 1.86:1 Fail
Aa #61BBB6 on #A1DFFF 1.56:1 Fail

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