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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Monochromatic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #F0F5F9;
  --c-muted-2: #C9D6DF;
  --c-muted-3: #52616B;
  --c-muted-4: #1E2022;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from pale blue (#F0F5F9) as its lightest tone to charcoal (#1E2022) as its darkest. It blends pale blue, light blue, muted cyan and charcoal 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 #F0F5F9 on #1E2022 at 14.89:1.

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

Color breakdown

Pale blue #F0F5F9

RGB: rgb(240, 245, 249)
HSL: hsl(207, 43%, 96%)
Luminance: 0.907

Light blue #C9D6DF

RGB: rgb(201, 214, 223)
HSL: hsl(205, 26%, 83%)
Luminance: 0.658

Muted cyan #52616B

RGB: rgb(82, 97, 107)
HSL: hsl(204, 13%, 37%)
Luminance: 0.114

Charcoal #1E2022

RGB: rgb(30, 32, 34)
HSL: hsl(210, 6%, 13%)
Luminance: 0.014

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #F0F5F9 on #1E2022 14.89:1 AAA

Aa #C9D6DF on #1E2022 11.03:1 AAA

Aa #F0F5F9 on #52616B 5.83:1 AA

Aa #C9D6DF on #52616B 4.32:1 AA Large

Aa #52616B on #1E2022 2.55:1 Fail

Aa #F0F5F9 on #C9D6DF 1.35:1 Fail

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