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Water Shallows

Water Shallows

5-color palette · Cool · Dark · Analogous harmony

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Water Shallows

5-color palette · Cool temperature · Dark tone · Analogous harmony

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Muted 5 colors Cool Dark Analogous blue sky underwater ocean
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Colors 5

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #011113;
  --c-muted-2: #04454F;
  --c-muted-3: #0B76BD;
  --c-muted-4: #0AA5BD;
  --c-muted-5: #0BBC81;
}

About this palette

This 5-color muted palette runs from Slime Girl (#0BBC81) as its lightest tone to Black Glaze (#011113) as its darkest. It blends Black Glaze, Sherpa Blue, Bumangués Blue, Bahaman Sea and Slime Girl into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 10 color pairings, 2 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #011113 on #0BBC81 at 7.81:1.

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

Color breakdown

Black Glaze #011113
RGB
rgb(1, 17, 19)
HSL
hsl(187, 90%, 4%)
Luminance
0.005
Sherpa Blue #04454F
RGB
rgb(4, 69, 79)
HSL
hsl(188, 90%, 16%)
Luminance
0.049
Bumangués Blue #0B76BD
RGB
rgb(11, 118, 189)
HSL
hsl(204, 89%, 39%)
Luminance
0.167
Bahaman Sea #0AA5BD
RGB
rgb(10, 165, 189)
HSL
hsl(188, 90%, 39%)
Luminance
0.307
Slime Girl #0BBC81
RGB
rgb(11, 188, 129)
HSL
hsl(160, 89%, 39%)
Luminance
0.376

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #011113 on #0BBC81 7.81:1 AAA
Aa #011113 on #0AA5BD 6.54:1 AA
Aa #04454F on #0BBC81 4.33:1 AA Large
Aa #011113 on #0B76BD 3.98:1 AA Large
Aa #04454F on #0AA5BD 3.62:1 AA Large
Aa #04454F on #0B76BD 2.20:1 Fail
Aa #0B76BD on #0BBC81 1.96:1 Fail
Aa #011113 on #04454F 1.81:1 Fail
Aa #0B76BD on #0AA5BD 1.64:1 Fail
Aa #0AA5BD on #0BBC81 1.20:1 Fail

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