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Evidence In Darkness

Evidence In Darkness

6-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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Evidence In Darkness

6-color palette · Warm temperature · Mixed tone · Triadic harmony

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Muted 6 colors Warm Mixed Triadic contrast complementarycolors
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Colors 6

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #76428A;
  --c-muted-2: #000000;
  --c-muted-3: #C8B59E;
  --c-muted-4: #57457A;
  --c-muted-5: #FFFFFF;
  --c-muted-6: #756A8B;
}

About this palette

This 6-color muted palette runs from White (#FFFFFF) as its lightest tone to Black (#000000) as its darkest. It blends Amaranth Purple, Black, Moose Mousse, Cyber Grape, White and Bureaucracy into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 15 color pairings, 5 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #000000 on #FFFFFF at 21:1.

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

Color breakdown

Amaranth Purple #76428A
RGB
rgb(118, 66, 138)
HSL
hsl(283, 35%, 40%)
Luminance
0.096
Black #000000
RGB
rgb(0, 0, 0)
HSL
hsl(0, 0%, 0%)
Luminance
0.000
Moose Mousse #C8B59E
RGB
rgb(200, 181, 158)
HSL
hsl(33, 28%, 70%)
Luminance
0.478
Cyber Grape #57457A
RGB
rgb(87, 69, 122)
HSL
hsl(260, 28%, 37%)
Luminance
0.077
White #FFFFFF
RGB
rgb(255, 255, 255)
HSL
hsl(0, 0%, 100%)
Luminance
1.000
Bureaucracy #756A8B
RGB
rgb(117, 106, 139)
HSL
hsl(260, 13%, 48%)
Luminance
0.160

Contrast & accessibility

5 of 15 color pairings meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text.

Aa #000000 on #FFFFFF 21.00:1 AAA
Aa #000000 on #C8B59E 10.56:1 AAA
Aa #57457A on #FFFFFF 8.28:1 AAA
Aa #76428A on #FFFFFF 7.20:1 AAA
Aa #FFFFFF on #756A8B 5.01:1 AA
Aa #000000 on #756A8B 4.19:1 AA Large
Aa #C8B59E on #57457A 4.16:1 AA Large
Aa #76428A on #C8B59E 3.62:1 AA Large
Aa #76428A on #000000 2.92:1 Fail
Aa #000000 on #57457A 2.54:1 Fail
Aa #C8B59E on #756A8B 2.52:1 Fail
Aa #C8B59E on #FFFFFF 1.99:1 Fail
Aa #57457A on #756A8B 1.65:1 Fail
Aa #76428A on #756A8B 1.44:1 Fail
Aa #76428A on #57457A 1.15:1 Fail

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