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4-Color Muted Palette

4-color palette · Neutral · Mixed · Triadic harmony

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4-Color Muted Palette

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

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Muted 4 colors Neutral Mixed Triadic

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Colors 4

CSS variables

:root {
  --c-muted-1: #352F44;
  --c-muted-2: #5C5470;
  --c-muted-3: #B9B4C7;
  --c-muted-4: #FAF0E6;
}

About this palette

This 4-color muted palette runs from pale orange (#FAF0E6) as its lightest tone to muted indigo (#352F44) as its darkest. It blends muted indigo, light indigo and pale orange into a single set you can drop straight into a UI. Of its 6 color pairings, 3 meet the WCAG AA contrast threshold (4.5:1) for body text — the strongest is #352F44 on #FAF0E6 at 11.37:1.

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

Color breakdown

Muted indigo #352F44

RGB: rgb(53, 47, 68)
HSL: hsl(257, 18%, 23%)
Luminance: 0.032

Muted indigo #5C5470

RGB: rgb(92, 84, 112)
HSL: hsl(257, 14%, 38%)
Luminance: 0.098

Light indigo #B9B4C7

RGB: rgb(185, 180, 199)
HSL: hsl(256, 15%, 74%)
Luminance: 0.471

Pale orange #FAF0E6

RGB: rgb(250, 240, 230)
HSL: hsl(30, 67%, 94%)
Luminance: 0.884

Contrast & accessibility

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

Aa #352F44 on #FAF0E6 11.37:1 AAA

Aa #352F44 on #B9B4C7 6.35:1 AA

Aa #5C5470 on #FAF0E6 6.31:1 AA

Aa #5C5470 on #B9B4C7 3.52:1 AA Large

Aa #352F44 on #5C5470 1.80:1 Fail

Aa #B9B4C7 on #FAF0E6 1.79:1 Fail

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