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4-Color Maroon Palette

4-color palette · Warm · Mixed · Analogous harmony

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4-Color Maroon Palette

4-color palette · Warm temperature · Mixed tone · Analogous harmony

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Vibrant 4 colors Warm Mixed Analogous

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #800000;
  --c-vibrant-2: #982B1C;
  --c-vibrant-3: #DAD4B5;
  --c-vibrant-4: #F2E8C6;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from Ethereal Green (#F2E8C6) as its lightest tone to Maroon (#800000) as its darkest. It blends Maroon, Red Birch, New Growth and Ethereal Green into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 4 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #800000 on #F2E8C6 at 8.93:1.

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

Color breakdown

Maroon #800000

RGB: rgb(128, 0, 0)
HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 25%)
Luminance: 0.046

Red Birch #982B1C

RGB: rgb(152, 43, 28)
HSL: hsl(7, 69%, 35%)
Luminance: 0.085

New Growth #DAD4B5

RGB: rgb(218, 212, 181)
HSL: hsl(50, 33%, 78%)
Luminance: 0.653

Ethereal Green #F2E8C6

RGB: rgb(242, 232, 198)
HSL: hsl(46, 63%, 86%)
Luminance: 0.807

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #800000 on #F2E8C6 8.93:1 AAA

Aa #800000 on #DAD4B5 7.33:1 AAA

Aa #982B1C on #F2E8C6 6.35:1 AA

Aa #982B1C on #DAD4B5 5.21:1 AA

Aa #800000 on #982B1C 1.41:1 Fail

Aa #DAD4B5 on #F2E8C6 1.22:1 Fail

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