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4-Color Carolina Blue Palette

4-Color Carolina Blue Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Carolina Blue Palette

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

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Vibrant 4 colors Warm Mixed Triadic
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #231A31;
  --c-vibrant-2: #E42F45;
  --c-vibrant-3: #B42B3F;
  --c-vibrant-4: #8AB2FF;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from Carolina Blue (#8AB2FF) as its lightest tone to Black Howl (#231A31) as its darkest. It blends Black Howl, Cruel Ruby, Timeless Beauty and Carolina 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 #231A31 on #8AB2FF at 7.83:1.

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

Color breakdown

Black Howl #231A31
RGB
rgb(35, 26, 49)
HSL
hsl(263, 31%, 15%)
Luminance
0.013
Cruel Ruby #E42F45
RGB
rgb(228, 47, 69)
HSL
hsl(353, 77%, 54%)
Luminance
0.190
Timeless Beauty #B42B3F
RGB
rgb(180, 43, 63)
HSL
hsl(351, 61%, 44%)
Luminance
0.118
Carolina Blue #8AB2FF
RGB
rgb(138, 178, 255)
HSL
hsl(219, 100%, 77%)
Luminance
0.445

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #231A31 on #8AB2FF 7.83:1 AAA
Aa #231A31 on #E42F45 3.79:1 AA Large
Aa #B42B3F on #8AB2FF 2.95:1 Fail
Aa #231A31 on #B42B3F 2.66:1 Fail
Aa #E42F45 on #8AB2FF 2.06:1 Fail
Aa #E42F45 on #B42B3F 1.43:1 Fail

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