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Cryptic Ocean

Cryptic Ocean

6-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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Cryptic Ocean

6-color palette · Cool temperature · Mixed tone · Triadic harmony

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Muted 6 colors Cool Mixed Triadic artist blue purple klafooty
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Colors 6

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #2A173B;
  --c-muted-2: #3F2C5F;
  --c-muted-3: #443F7B;
  --c-muted-4: #4C5C87;
  --c-muted-5: #69809E;
  --c-muted-6: #95C5AC;
}

About this palette

This 6-color muted palette runs from Bella Green (#95C5AC) as its lightest tone to Blackcurrant (#2A173B) as its darkest. It blends Blackcurrant, Jakarta Skyline, Sage Violet, Wizard, Bay View and Bella Green into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 15 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #2A173B on #95C5AC at 8.46:1.

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

Color breakdown

Blackcurrant #2A173B
RGB
rgb(42, 23, 59)
HSL
hsl(272, 44%, 16%)
Luminance
0.014
Jakarta Skyline #3F2C5F
RGB
rgb(63, 44, 95)
HSL
hsl(262, 37%, 27%)
Luminance
0.037
Sage Violet #443F7B
RGB
rgb(68, 63, 123)
HSL
hsl(245, 32%, 36%)
Luminance
0.062
Wizard #4C5C87
RGB
rgb(76, 92, 135)
HSL
hsl(224, 28%, 41%)
Luminance
0.109
Bay View #69809E
RGB
rgb(105, 128, 158)
HSL
hsl(214, 21%, 52%)
Luminance
0.209
Bella Green #95C5AC
RGB
rgb(149, 197, 172)
HSL
hsl(149, 29%, 68%)
Luminance
0.493

Contrast & accessibility

3 of 15 color pairings meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text.

Aa #2A173B on #95C5AC 8.46:1 AAA
Aa #3F2C5F on #95C5AC 6.25:1 AA
Aa #443F7B on #95C5AC 4.84:1 AA
Aa #2A173B on #69809E 4.04:1 AA Large
Aa #4C5C87 on #95C5AC 3.41:1 AA Large
Aa #3F2C5F on #69809E 2.98:1 Fail
Aa #2A173B on #4C5C87 2.48:1 Fail
Aa #443F7B on #69809E 2.31:1 Fail
Aa #69809E on #95C5AC 2.10:1 Fail
Aa #3F2C5F on #4C5C87 1.84:1 Fail
Aa #2A173B on #443F7B 1.75:1 Fail
Aa #4C5C87 on #69809E 1.63:1 Fail
Aa #443F7B on #4C5C87 1.42:1 Fail
Aa #2A173B on #3F2C5F 1.35:1 Fail
Aa #3F2C5F on #443F7B 1.29:1 Fail

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