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Bicycle

4-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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Bicycle

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

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Muted 4 colors Neutral Mixed Triadic artist gameboy red blue
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #161616;
  --c-muted-2: #AB4646;
  --c-muted-3: #8F9BF6;
  --c-muted-4: #F0F0F0;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Snowflake (#F0F0F0) as its lightest tone to Pot Black (#161616) as its darkest. It blends Pot Black, Redtail, Periwinkle Blue and Snowflake 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 #161616 on #F0F0F0 at 15.88:1.

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

Color breakdown

Pot Black #161616
RGB
rgb(22, 22, 22)
HSL
hsl(0, 0%, 9%)
Luminance
0.008
Redtail #AB4646
RGB
rgb(171, 70, 70)
HSL
hsl(0, 42%, 47%)
Luminance
0.135
Periwinkle Blue #8F9BF6
RGB
rgb(143, 155, 246)
HSL
hsl(233, 85%, 76%)
Luminance
0.359
Snowflake #F0F0F0
RGB
rgb(240, 240, 240)
HSL
hsl(0, 0%, 94%)
Luminance
0.871

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #161616 on #F0F0F0 15.88:1 AAA
Aa #161616 on #8F9BF6 7.06:1 AAA
Aa #AB4646 on #F0F0F0 4.99:1 AA
Aa #161616 on #AB4646 3.19:1 AA Large
Aa #8F9BF6 on #F0F0F0 2.25:1 Fail
Aa #AB4646 on #8F9BF6 2.22:1 Fail

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