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4-Color NATO Blue Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color NATO Blue Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Complementary

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #153448;
  --c-muted-2: #3C5B6F;
  --c-muted-3: #948979;
  --c-muted-4: #DFD0B8;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Chopsticks (#DFD0B8) as its lightest tone to NATO Blue (#153448) as its darkest. It blends NATO Blue, Blue Spell, Art District and Chopsticks into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 2 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #153448 on #DFD0B8 at 8.57:1.

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

Color breakdown

NATO Blue #153448

RGB: rgb(21, 52, 72)
HSL: hsl(204, 55%, 18%)
Luminance: 0.031

Blue Spell #3C5B6F

RGB: rgb(60, 91, 111)
HSL: hsl(204, 30%, 34%)
Luminance: 0.096

Art District #948979

RGB: rgb(148, 137, 121)
HSL: hsl(36, 11%, 53%)
Luminance: 0.256

Chopsticks #DFD0B8

RGB: rgb(223, 208, 184)
HSL: hsl(37, 38%, 80%)
Luminance: 0.643

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #153448 on #DFD0B8 8.57:1 AAA

Aa #3C5B6F on #DFD0B8 4.75:1 AA

Aa #153448 on #948979 3.78:1 AA Large

Aa #948979 on #DFD0B8 2.27:1 Fail

Aa #3C5B6F on #948979 2.10:1 Fail

Aa #153448 on #3C5B6F 1.81:1 Fail

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