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GenericMonochrome

GenericMonochrome

5-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Monochromatic harmony

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GenericMonochrome

5-color palette · Warm temperature · Mixed tone · Monochromatic harmony

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Muted 5 colors Warm Mixed Monochromatic monochrome gameboy greyscale
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Colors 5

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #36241E;
  --c-muted-2: #4A3D35;
  --c-muted-3: #747769;
  --c-muted-4: #A29D8D;
  --c-muted-5: #CFC1AB;
}

About this palette

This 5-color muted palette runs from Cabo (#CFC1AB) as its lightest tone to Cocoa Brown (#36241E) as its darkest. It blends Cocoa Brown, Slate Black, Armoured Steel, Sacred Vortex and Cabo into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 10 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #36241E on #CFC1AB at 8.31:1.

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

Color breakdown

Cocoa Brown #36241E
RGB
rgb(54, 36, 30)
HSL
hsl(15, 29%, 16%)
Luminance
0.021
Slate Black #4A3D35
RGB
rgb(74, 61, 53)
HSL
hsl(23, 17%, 25%)
Luminance
0.051
Armoured Steel #747769
RGB
rgb(116, 119, 105)
HSL
hsl(73, 6%, 44%)
Luminance
0.179
Sacred Vortex #A29D8D
RGB
rgb(162, 157, 141)
HSL
hsl(46, 10%, 59%)
Luminance
0.337
Cabo #CFC1AB
RGB
rgb(207, 193, 171)
HSL
hsl(37, 27%, 74%)
Luminance
0.544

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #36241E on #CFC1AB 8.31:1 AAA
Aa #4A3D35 on #CFC1AB 5.90:1 AA
Aa #36241E on #A29D8D 5.42:1 AA
Aa #4A3D35 on #A29D8D 3.85:1 AA Large
Aa #36241E on #747769 3.21:1 AA Large
Aa #747769 on #CFC1AB 2.59:1 Fail
Aa #4A3D35 on #747769 2.28:1 Fail
Aa #747769 on #A29D8D 1.69:1 Fail
Aa #A29D8D on #CFC1AB 1.53:1 Fail
Aa #36241E on #4A3D35 1.41:1 Fail

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