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4-Color Minimal Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Complementary harmony

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4-Color Minimal 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: #5F5D9C;
  --c-muted-2: #6196A6;
  --c-muted-3: #A4CE95;
  --c-muted-4: #F4EDCC;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Minimal (#F4EDCC) as its lightest tone to Violet Storm (#5F5D9C) as its darkest. It blends Violet Storm, Deep Diving, Chenille and Minimal into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 1 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #5F5D9C on #F4EDCC at 5.05:1.

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

Color breakdown

Violet Storm #5F5D9C

RGB: rgb(95, 93, 156)
HSL: hsl(242, 25%, 49%)
Luminance: 0.127

Deep Diving #6196A6

RGB: rgb(97, 150, 166)
HSL: hsl(194, 28%, 52%)
Luminance: 0.271

Chenille #A4CE95

RGB: rgb(164, 206, 149)
HSL: hsl(104, 37%, 70%)
Luminance: 0.542

Minimal #F4EDCC

RGB: rgb(244, 237, 204)
HSL: hsl(50, 65%, 88%)
Luminance: 0.842

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #5F5D9C on #F4EDCC 5.05:1 AA

Aa #5F5D9C on #A4CE95 3.35:1 AA Large

Aa #6196A6 on #F4EDCC 2.78:1 Fail

Aa #6196A6 on #A4CE95 1.84:1 Fail

Aa #5F5D9C on #6196A6 1.82:1 Fail

Aa #A4CE95 on #F4EDCC 1.51:1 Fail

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