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Sadness

5-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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Sadness

5-color palette · Cool temperature · Mixed tone · Complementary harmony

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Muted 5 colors Cool Mixed Complementary cool froeu
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Colors 5

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #2E364D;
  --c-muted-2: #425D87;
  --c-muted-3: #7D95DE;
  --c-muted-4: #DDC8F9;
  --c-muted-5: #FBFEF9;
}

About this palette

This 5-color muted palette runs from Ceramic (#FBFEF9) as its lightest tone to German Liquorice (#2E364D) as its darkest. It blends German Liquorice, Anchor Point, Mystic Iris, Neon Boneyard and Ceramic into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 10 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #2E364D on #FBFEF9 at 11.79:1.

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

Color breakdown

German Liquorice #2E364D
RGB
rgb(46, 54, 77)
HSL
hsl(225, 25%, 24%)
Luminance
0.038
Anchor Point #425D87
RGB
rgb(66, 93, 135)
HSL
hsl(217, 34%, 39%)
Luminance
0.107
Mystic Iris #7D95DE
RGB
rgb(125, 149, 222)
HSL
hsl(225, 60%, 68%)
Luminance
0.311
Neon Boneyard #DDC8F9
RGB
rgb(221, 200, 249)
HSL
hsl(266, 80%, 88%)
Luminance
0.635
Ceramic #FBFEF9
RGB
rgb(251, 254, 249)
HSL
hsl(96, 71%, 99%)
Luminance
0.982

Contrast & accessibility

3 of 10 color pairings meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text.

Aa #2E364D on #FBFEF9 11.79:1 AAA
Aa #2E364D on #DDC8F9 7.83:1 AAA
Aa #425D87 on #FBFEF9 6.56:1 AA
Aa #425D87 on #DDC8F9 4.35:1 AA Large
Aa #2E364D on #7D95DE 4.13:1 AA Large
Aa #7D95DE on #FBFEF9 2.86:1 Fail
Aa #425D87 on #7D95DE 2.30:1 Fail
Aa #7D95DE on #DDC8F9 1.90:1 Fail
Aa #2E364D on #425D87 1.80:1 Fail
Aa #DDC8F9 on #FBFEF9 1.51:1 Fail

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