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4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary 4 blue 2bit paper
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #E1D8D4;
  --c-muted-2: #878C9D;
  --c-muted-3: #45568D;
  --c-muted-4: #12121B;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Light Thought (#E1D8D4) as its lightest tone to Back in Black (#12121B) as its darkest. It blends Light Thought, Applause Please, Demon Blue and Back in Black 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 #E1D8D4 on #12121B at 13.27:1.

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

Color breakdown

Light Thought #E1D8D4
RGB
rgb(225, 216, 212)
HSL
hsl(18, 18%, 86%)
Luminance
0.699
Applause Please #878C9D
RGB
rgb(135, 140, 157)
HSL
hsl(226, 10%, 57%)
Luminance
0.263
Demon Blue #45568D
RGB
rgb(69, 86, 141)
HSL
hsl(226, 34%, 41%)
Luminance
0.098
Back in Black #12121B
RGB
rgb(18, 18, 27)
HSL
hsl(240, 20%, 9%)
Luminance
0.006

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #E1D8D4 on #12121B 13.27:1 AAA
Aa #878C9D on #12121B 5.56:1 AA
Aa #E1D8D4 on #45568D 5.04:1 AA
Aa #45568D on #12121B 2.63:1 Fail
Aa #E1D8D4 on #878C9D 2.39:1 Fail
Aa #878C9D on #45568D 2.11:1 Fail

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