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Alien Dish

Alien Dish

10-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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Alien Dish

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

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Muted 10 colors Cool Mixed Complementary dark blue cyan food
Likes 46
Colors 10

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #281E38;
  --c-muted-2: #291D76;
  --c-muted-3: #58C0A9;
  --c-muted-4: #A6FFF7;
  --c-muted-5: #9B86BD;
  --c-muted-6: #65328F;
  --c-muted-7: #B6E273;
  --c-muted-8: #FBFFBC;
  --c-muted-9: #9C655F;
  --c-muted-10: #522A33;
}

About this palette

This 10-color muted palette runs from Golden Hermes (#FBFFBC) as its lightest tone to Cold Steel (#281E38) as its darkest. It blends Cold Steel, Blue Royale, Florida Keys, Frostbite, Petrified Purple, True Purple, Melissa, Golden Hermes, Terra Cotta Sun and Black Rose into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 45 color pairings, 17 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #281E38 on #FBFFBC at 15.1:1.

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

Color breakdown

Cold Steel #281E38
RGB
rgb(40, 30, 56)
HSL
hsl(263, 30%, 17%)
Luminance
0.017
Blue Royale #291D76
RGB
rgb(41, 29, 118)
HSL
hsl(248, 61%, 29%)
Luminance
0.027
Florida Keys #58C0A9
RGB
rgb(88, 192, 169)
HSL
hsl(167, 45%, 55%)
Luminance
0.426
Frostbite #A6FFF7
RGB
rgb(166, 255, 247)
HSL
hsl(175, 100%, 83%)
Luminance
0.863
Petrified Purple #9B86BD
RGB
rgb(155, 134, 189)
HSL
hsl(263, 29%, 63%)
Luminance
0.277
True Purple #65328F
RGB
rgb(101, 50, 143)
HSL
hsl(273, 48%, 38%)
Luminance
0.070
Melissa #B6E273
RGB
rgb(182, 226, 115)
HSL
hsl(84, 66%, 67%)
Luminance
0.656
Golden Hermes #FBFFBC
RGB
rgb(251, 255, 188)
HSL
hsl(64, 100%, 87%)
Luminance
0.957
Terra Cotta Sun #9C655F
RGB
rgb(156, 101, 95)
HSL
hsl(6, 24%, 49%)
Luminance
0.172
Black Rose #522A33
RGB
rgb(82, 42, 51)
HSL
hsl(347, 32%, 24%)
Luminance
0.037

Contrast & accessibility

17 of 45 color pairings meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text.

Aa #281E38 on #FBFFBC 15.10:1 AAA
Aa #281E38 on #A6FFF7 13.70:1 AAA
Aa #291D76 on #FBFFBC 13.14:1 AAA
Aa #291D76 on #A6FFF7 11.93:1 AAA
Aa #FBFFBC on #522A33 11.59:1 AAA
Aa #281E38 on #B6E273 10.59:1 AAA
Aa #A6FFF7 on #522A33 10.51:1 AAA
Aa #291D76 on #B6E273 9.22:1 AAA
Aa #65328F on #FBFFBC 8.37:1 AAA
Aa #B6E273 on #522A33 8.12:1 AAA
Aa #A6FFF7 on #65328F 7.59:1 AAA
Aa #281E38 on #58C0A9 7.15:1 AAA
Aa #291D76 on #58C0A9 6.22:1 AA
Aa #65328F on #B6E273 5.87:1 AA
Aa #58C0A9 on #522A33 5.48:1 AA
Aa #281E38 on #9B86BD 4.91:1 AA
Aa #FBFFBC on #9C655F 4.53:1 AA
Aa #291D76 on #9B86BD 4.27:1 AA Large
Aa #A6FFF7 on #9C655F 4.11:1 AA Large
Aa #58C0A9 on #65328F 3.96:1 AA Large
Aa #9B86BD on #522A33 3.76:1 AA Large
Aa #281E38 on #9C655F 3.33:1 AA Large
Aa #B6E273 on #9C655F 3.18:1 AA Large
Aa #9B86BD on #FBFFBC 3.08:1 AA Large
Aa #291D76 on #9C655F 2.90:1 Fail
Aa #A6FFF7 on #9B86BD 2.79:1 Fail
Aa #9B86BD on #65328F 2.72:1 Fail
Aa #9C655F on #522A33 2.56:1 Fail
Aa #9B86BD on #B6E273 2.16:1 Fail
Aa #58C0A9 on #9C655F 2.15:1 Fail
Aa #58C0A9 on #FBFFBC 2.11:1 Fail
Aa #58C0A9 on #A6FFF7 1.92:1 Fail
Aa #65328F on #9C655F 1.85:1 Fail
Aa #281E38 on #65328F 1.81:1 Fail
Aa #291D76 on #65328F 1.57:1 Fail
Aa #58C0A9 on #B6E273 1.48:1 Fail
Aa #9B86BD on #9C655F 1.47:1 Fail
Aa #58C0A9 on #9B86BD 1.46:1 Fail
Aa #B6E273 on #FBFFBC 1.43:1 Fail
Aa #65328F on #522A33 1.38:1 Fail
Aa #281E38 on #522A33 1.30:1 Fail
Aa #A6FFF7 on #B6E273 1.29:1 Fail
Aa #281E38 on #291D76 1.15:1 Fail
Aa #291D76 on #522A33 1.13:1 Fail
Aa #A6FFF7 on #FBFFBC 1.10:1 Fail

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