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4-Color Blue Whale Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Blue Whale 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: #D1DBBD;
  --c-muted-2: #91AA9D;
  --c-muted-3: #3E606F;
  --c-muted-4: #193441;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Zen Garden (#D1DBBD) as its lightest tone to Blue Whale (#193441) as its darkest. It blends Zen Garden, Melville, Juniper Berry Blue and Blue Whale into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #D1DBBD on #193441 at 9.06:1.

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

Color breakdown

Zen Garden #D1DBBD

RGB: rgb(209, 219, 189)
HSL: hsl(80, 29%, 80%)
Luminance: 0.679

Melville #91AA9D

RGB: rgb(145, 170, 157)
HSL: hsl(149, 13%, 62%)
Luminance: 0.372

Juniper Berry Blue #3E606F

RGB: rgb(62, 96, 111)
HSL: hsl(198, 28%, 34%)
Luminance: 0.105

Blue Whale #193441

RGB: rgb(25, 52, 65)
HSL: hsl(200, 44%, 18%)
Luminance: 0.030

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #D1DBBD on #193441 9.06:1 AAA

Aa #91AA9D on #193441 5.25:1 AA

Aa #D1DBBD on #3E606F 4.69:1 AA

Aa #91AA9D on #3E606F 2.72:1 Fail

Aa #3E606F on #193441 1.93:1 Fail

Aa #D1DBBD on #91AA9D 1.73:1 Fail

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