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4-Color Carolina Blue Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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4-Color Carolina Blue 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: #353941;
  --c-muted-2: #26282B;
  --c-muted-3: #5F85DB;
  --c-muted-4: #90B8F8;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Carolina Blue (#90B8F8) as its lightest tone to Graphite Black (#26282B) as its darkest. It blends Antarctic Deep, Graphite Black, Blue Jay and Carolina Blue 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 #26282B on #90B8F8 at 7.32:1.

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

Color breakdown

Antarctic Deep #353941

RGB: rgb(53, 57, 65)
HSL: hsl(220, 10%, 23%)
Luminance: 0.041

Graphite Black #26282B

RGB: rgb(38, 40, 43)
HSL: hsl(216, 6%, 16%)
Luminance: 0.021

Blue Jay #5F85DB

RGB: rgb(95, 133, 219)
HSL: hsl(222, 63%, 62%)
Luminance: 0.243

Carolina Blue #90B8F8

RGB: rgb(144, 184, 248)
HSL: hsl(217, 88%, 77%)
Luminance: 0.470

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #26282B on #90B8F8 7.32:1 AAA

Aa #353941 on #90B8F8 5.74:1 AA

Aa #26282B on #5F85DB 4.13:1 AA Large

Aa #353941 on #5F85DB 3.23:1 AA Large

Aa #5F85DB on #90B8F8 1.77:1 Fail

Aa #353941 on #26282B 1.28:1 Fail

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