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80s American

80s American

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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80s American

4-color palette · Cool temperature · Mixed tone · Complementary harmony

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Vibrant 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary white red old yellow
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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #00001C;
  --c-vibrant-2: #FFFFAF;
  --c-vibrant-3: #6C80B1;
  --c-vibrant-4: #FF0000;
}

About this palette

This 4-color vibrant palette runs from VIC 20 Creme (#FFFFAF) as its lightest tone to Hadopelagic Water (#00001C) as its darkest. It blends Hadopelagic Water, VIC 20 Creme, Marvellous and Red 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 #00001C on #FFFFAF at 19.84:1.

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

Color breakdown

Hadopelagic Water #00001C
RGB
rgb(0, 0, 28)
HSL
hsl(240, 100%, 5%)
Luminance
0.001
VIC 20 Creme #FFFFAF
RGB
rgb(255, 255, 175)
HSL
hsl(60, 100%, 84%)
Luminance
0.959
Marvellous #6C80B1
RGB
rgb(108, 128, 177)
HSL
hsl(223, 31%, 56%)
Luminance
0.218
Red #FF0000
RGB
rgb(255, 0, 0)
HSL
hsl(0, 100%, 50%)
Luminance
0.213

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #00001C on #FFFFAF 19.84:1 AAA
Aa #00001C on #6C80B1 5.27:1 AA
Aa #00001C on #FF0000 5.17:1 AA
Aa #FFFFAF on #FF0000 3.84:1 AA Large
Aa #FFFFAF on #6C80B1 3.76:1 AA Large
Aa #6C80B1 on #FF0000 1.02:1 Fail

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