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4-Color Afternoon Palette

4-Color Afternoon Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Afternoon Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #2B3964;
  --c-muted-2: #3482AA;
  --c-muted-3: #6DB3B5;
  --c-muted-4: #F9CC7B;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Afternoon (#F9CC7B) as its lightest tone to Blue Depths (#2B3964) as its darkest. It blends Blue Depths, Blue Splash, Dexter and Afternoon 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 #2B3964 on #F9CC7B at 7.45:1.

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

Color breakdown

Blue Depths #2B3964
RGB
rgb(43, 57, 100)
HSL
hsl(225, 40%, 28%)
Luminance
0.044
Blue Splash #3482AA
RGB
rgb(52, 130, 170)
HSL
hsl(200, 53%, 44%)
Luminance
0.196
Dexter #6DB3B5
RGB
rgb(109, 179, 181)
HSL
hsl(182, 33%, 57%)
Luminance
0.388
Afternoon #F9CC7B
RGB
rgb(249, 204, 123)
HSL
hsl(39, 91%, 73%)
Luminance
0.648

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #2B3964 on #F9CC7B 7.45:1 AAA
Aa #2B3964 on #6DB3B5 4.68:1 AA
Aa #3482AA on #F9CC7B 2.84:1 Fail
Aa #2B3964 on #3482AA 2.63:1 Fail
Aa #3482AA on #6DB3B5 1.78:1 Fail
Aa #6DB3B5 on #F9CC7B 1.59:1 Fail

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