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It Was So Dark

It Was So Dark

4-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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It Was So Dark

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

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Muted 4 colors Neutral Mixed Triadic gameboy contrast flipnote
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #F5F5F5;
  --c-muted-2: #FF4D4D;
  --c-muted-3: #4B7AFF;
  --c-muted-4: #131313;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from White Smoke (#F5F5F5) as its lightest tone to Cursed Black (#131313) as its darkest. It blends White Smoke, Tart Orange, C64 NTSC and Cursed 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 #F5F5F5 on #131313 at 17.04:1.

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

Color breakdown

White Smoke #F5F5F5
RGB
rgb(245, 245, 245)
HSL
hsl(0, 0%, 96%)
Luminance
0.913
Tart Orange #FF4D4D
RGB
rgb(255, 77, 77)
HSL
hsl(0, 100%, 65%)
Luminance
0.271
C64 NTSC #4B7AFF
RGB
rgb(75, 122, 255)
HSL
hsl(224, 100%, 65%)
Luminance
0.226
Cursed Black #131313
RGB
rgb(19, 19, 19)
HSL
hsl(0, 0%, 7%)
Luminance
0.007

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #F5F5F5 on #131313 17.04:1 AAA
Aa #FF4D4D on #131313 5.68:1 AA
Aa #4B7AFF on #131313 4.89:1 AA
Aa #F5F5F5 on #4B7AFF 3.49:1 AA Large
Aa #F5F5F5 on #FF4D4D 3.00:1 AA Large
Aa #FF4D4D on #4B7AFF 1.16:1 Fail

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