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Soggy Newspapers

Soggy Newspapers

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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Soggy Newspapers

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Triadic black white monochrome greyscale
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #DBE6E9;
  --c-muted-2: #8F8E8A;
  --c-muted-3: #5C5B5B;
  --c-muted-4: #0D0E0A;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Airy (#DBE6E9) as its lightest tone to Black Wash (#0D0E0A) as its darkest. It blends Airy, Letter Grey, Iron Fixture and Black Wash 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 #DBE6E9 on #0D0E0A at 15.22:1.

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

Color breakdown

Airy #DBE6E9
RGB
rgb(219, 230, 233)
HSL
hsl(193, 24%, 89%)
Luminance
0.775
Letter Grey #8F8E8A
RGB
rgb(143, 142, 138)
HSL
hsl(48, 2%, 55%)
Luminance
0.270
Iron Fixture #5C5B5B
RGB
rgb(92, 91, 91)
HSL
hsl(0, 1%, 36%)
Luminance
0.105
Black Wash #0D0E0A
RGB
rgb(13, 14, 10)
HSL
hsl(75, 17%, 5%)
Luminance
0.004

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #DBE6E9 on #0D0E0A 15.22:1 AAA
Aa #8F8E8A on #0D0E0A 5.91:1 AA
Aa #DBE6E9 on #5C5B5B 5.32:1 AA
Aa #5C5B5B on #0D0E0A 2.86:1 Fail
Aa #DBE6E9 on #8F8E8A 2.58:1 Fail
Aa #8F8E8A on #5C5B5B 2.06:1 Fail

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