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City Silhouette 5

City Silhouette 5

5-color palette · Cool · Dark · Complementary harmony

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City Silhouette 5

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

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Vibrant 5 colors Cool Dark Complementary night sunset city 5color
Likes 9
Colors 5

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-vibrant-1: #011010;
  --c-vibrant-2: #033030;
  --c-vibrant-3: #AA5500;
  --c-vibrant-4: #AFAF00;
  --c-vibrant-5: #EFEFE0;
}

About this palette

This 5-color vibrant palette runs from Pearl Onion (#EFEFE0) as its lightest tone to Black Glaze (#011010) as its darkest. It blends Black Glaze, Roof Tile Green, Tijolo, Honey and Thyme and Pearl Onion into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 10 color pairings, 5 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #011010 on #EFEFE0 at 16.71:1.

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

Color breakdown

Black Glaze #011010
RGB
rgb(1, 16, 16)
HSL
hsl(180, 88%, 3%)
Luminance
0.004
Roof Tile Green #033030
RGB
rgb(3, 48, 48)
HSL
hsl(180, 88%, 10%)
Luminance
0.024
Tijolo #AA5500
RGB
rgb(170, 85, 0)
HSL
hsl(30, 100%, 33%)
Luminance
0.150
Honey and Thyme #AFAF00
RGB
rgb(175, 175, 0)
HSL
hsl(60, 100%, 34%)
Luminance
0.398
Pearl Onion #EFEFE0
RGB
rgb(239, 239, 224)
HSL
hsl(60, 32%, 91%)
Luminance
0.855

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #011010 on #EFEFE0 16.71:1 AAA
Aa #033030 on #EFEFE0 12.31:1 AAA
Aa #011010 on #AFAF00 8.27:1 AAA
Aa #033030 on #AFAF00 6.09:1 AA
Aa #AA5500 on #EFEFE0 4.51:1 AA
Aa #011010 on #AA5500 3.70:1 AA Large
Aa #033030 on #AA5500 2.73:1 Fail
Aa #AA5500 on #AFAF00 2.23:1 Fail
Aa #AFAF00 on #EFEFE0 2.02:1 Fail
Aa #011010 on #033030 1.36:1 Fail

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