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4-Color Pastoral Palette

4-color palette · Cool · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Pastoral Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Cool Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #265073;
  --c-muted-2: #2D9596;
  --c-muted-3: #9AD0C2;
  --c-muted-4: #F1FADA;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from Pastoral (#F1FADA) as its lightest tone to Midnight Sonata (#265073) as its darkest. It blends Midnight Sonata, Azure Tide, Opal Turquoise and Pastoral 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 #265073 on #F1FADA at 7.84:1.

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

Color breakdown

Midnight Sonata #265073

RGB: rgb(38, 80, 115)
HSL: hsl(207, 50%, 30%)
Luminance: 0.074

Azure Tide #2D9596

RGB: rgb(45, 149, 150)
HSL: hsl(181, 54%, 38%)
Luminance: 0.243

Opal Turquoise #9AD0C2

RGB: rgb(154, 208, 194)
HSL: hsl(164, 36%, 71%)
Luminance: 0.559

Pastoral #F1FADA

RGB: rgb(241, 250, 218)
HSL: hsl(77, 76%, 92%)
Luminance: 0.921

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #265073 on #F1FADA 7.84:1 AAA

Aa #265073 on #9AD0C2 4.91:1 AA

Aa #2D9596 on #F1FADA 3.32:1 AA Large

Aa #265073 on #2D9596 2.36:1 Fail

Aa #2D9596 on #9AD0C2 2.08:1 Fail

Aa #9AD0C2 on #F1FADA 1.60:1 Fail

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