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Calming Grey

Calming Grey

5-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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Calming Grey

5-color palette · Neutral temperature · Mixed tone · Complementary harmony

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Muted 5 colors Neutral Mixed Complementary
Likes 11
Colors 5

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #423629;
  --c-muted-2: #4F5D2F;
  --c-muted-3: #7D7E75;
  --c-muted-4: #B0B2B8;
  --c-muted-5: #CFD6EA;
}

About this palette

This 5-color muted palette runs from Light Hindsight (#CFD6EA) as its lightest tone to Jacko Bean (#423629) as its darkest. It blends Jacko Bean, Woodman, Attitude Grey, Astroscopus Grey and Light Hindsight 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 #423629 on #CFD6EA at 8.07:1.

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

Color breakdown

Jacko Bean #423629
RGB
rgb(66, 54, 41)
HSL
hsl(31, 23%, 21%)
Luminance
0.040
Woodman #4F5D2F
RGB
rgb(79, 93, 47)
HSL
hsl(78, 33%, 27%)
Luminance
0.097
Attitude Grey #7D7E75
RGB
rgb(125, 126, 117)
HSL
hsl(67, 4%, 48%)
Luminance
0.206
Astroscopus Grey #B0B2B8
RGB
rgb(176, 178, 184)
HSL
hsl(225, 5%, 71%)
Luminance
0.445
Light Hindsight #CFD6EA
RGB
rgb(207, 214, 234)
HSL
hsl(224, 39%, 86%)
Luminance
0.673

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #423629 on #CFD6EA 8.07:1 AAA
Aa #423629 on #B0B2B8 5.53:1 AA
Aa #4F5D2F on #CFD6EA 4.92:1 AA
Aa #4F5D2F on #B0B2B8 3.37:1 AA Large
Aa #423629 on #7D7E75 2.85:1 Fail
Aa #7D7E75 on #CFD6EA 2.83:1 Fail
Aa #7D7E75 on #B0B2B8 1.94:1 Fail
Aa #4F5D2F on #7D7E75 1.74:1 Fail
Aa #423629 on #4F5D2F 1.64:1 Fail
Aa #B0B2B8 on #CFD6EA 1.46:1 Fail

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