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Laying In The Shade

Laying In The Shade

5-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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Laying In The Shade

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

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Vibrant 5 colors Cool Mixed Complementary
Likes 9
Colors 5

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #533A71;
  --c-vibrant-2: #6184D8;
  --c-vibrant-3: #4FC2B7;
  --c-vibrant-4: #9AED5D;
  --c-vibrant-5: #F1F465;
}

About this palette

This 5-color vibrant palette runs from Crash Dummy (#F1F465) as its lightest tone to Succinct Violet (#533A71) as its darkest. It blends Succinct Violet, Blue Jay, Treasured Teal, Stadium Lawn and Crash Dummy into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 10 color pairings, 2 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #533A71 on #F1F465 at 8.08:1.

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

Color breakdown

Succinct Violet #533A71
RGB
rgb(83, 58, 113)
HSL
hsl(267, 32%, 34%)
Luminance
0.061
Blue Jay #6184D8
RGB
rgb(97, 132, 216)
HSL
hsl(222, 60%, 61%)
Luminance
0.240
Treasured Teal #4FC2B7
RGB
rgb(79, 194, 183)
HSL
hsl(174, 49%, 54%)
Luminance
0.437
Stadium Lawn #9AED5D
RGB
rgb(154, 237, 93)
HSL
hsl(95, 80%, 65%)
Luminance
0.682
Crash Dummy #F1F465
RGB
rgb(241, 244, 101)
HSL
hsl(61, 87%, 68%)
Luminance
0.843

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #533A71 on #F1F465 8.08:1 AAA
Aa #533A71 on #9AED5D 6.62:1 AA
Aa #533A71 on #4FC2B7 4.40:1 AA Large
Aa #6184D8 on #F1F465 3.08:1 AA Large
Aa #533A71 on #6184D8 2.62:1 Fail
Aa #6184D8 on #9AED5D 2.52:1 Fail
Aa #4FC2B7 on #F1F465 1.84:1 Fail
Aa #6184D8 on #4FC2B7 1.68:1 Fail
Aa #4FC2B7 on #9AED5D 1.50:1 Fail
Aa #9AED5D on #F1F465 1.22:1 Fail

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