40 color schemes

Muted Wedding Colors

Muted, natural wedding color schemes: dusty blues and pinks, sage greens, earth neutrals and soft purples.

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Sage, laurel green and ivoryTwo gray-greens, one yellower and one cooler. #BCB88A · #A9BA9D · #FFFFF0
Camel, wheat and creamCamel with the color of ripe grain. #C19A6B · #F5DEB3 · #FFFDD0
Ecru, sage and ivoryEcru and sage: straw and leaf. #C2B280 · #BCB88A · #FFFFF0
Slate gray, pale aqua and whiteSlate with a pale, powdery blue. #708090 · #BED3E5 · #FFFFFF
Tan, beige and ivoryThree steps of undyed-looking color. #D2B48C · #F5F5DC · #FFFFF0
Old rose, tea rose and ivoryDusty rose and a lighter pink of the same kind. #C08081 · #F4C2C2 · #FFFFF0
Mauve taupe, pale pink and champagneA dusky mauve-pink and a pale one. #915F6D · #FADADD · #F7E7CE
Glaucous, light steel blue and ivoryA gray-blue and its paler match. #6082B6 · #B0C4DE · #FFFFF0

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Sage and gray-greens 8

Dark sea green, light gray and snow A soft sea green beside plain gray. #8FBC8F · #D3D3D3 · #FFFAFA
Fern green, sage and parchment Fern is the strong one here, and still grayed. #4F7942 · #BCB88A · #F1E9D2
Hunter green, laurel green and champagne A dark green, kept quiet by a pale one. #355E3B · #A9BA9D · #F7E7CE
Laurel green, tan and linen Pale green and tan, like dried herbs. #A9BA9D · #D2B48C · #FAF0E6
Moss green, ash gray and cream Moss with a green-tinged gray. #8A9A5B · #B2BEB5 · #FFFDD0
Russian green, tea green and white A mid green with the brightness taken out. #679267 · #D0F0C0 · #FFFFFF
Sage, laurel green and ivory Two gray-greens, one yellower and one cooler. #BCB88A · #A9BA9D · #FFFFF0
Sage, rosy brown and eggshell Sage with a brownish pink. #BCB88A · #BC8F8F · #F0EAD6

Soft purples 8

English violet, lilac and parchment A dark grayed violet, with lilac to lift it. #563C5C · #C8A2C8 · #F1E9D2
French lilac, taupe gray and champagne Dusty purple beside a warm gray. #86608E · #8B8589 · #F7E7CE
French lilac, thistle and ivory A grayed mid purple and a very pale one. #86608E · #D8BFD8 · #FFFFF0
Lilac, heliotrope gray and cream Lilac with a gray that leans purple. #C8A2C8 · #AA98A9 · #FFFDD0
Old lavender, lavender gray and white Lavender with most of the color drained off. #796878 · #C4C3D0 · #FFFFFF
Old lavender, rosy brown and eggshell Gray-purple and brown-pink, both subdued. #796878 · #BC8F8F · #F0EAD6
Opera mauve, thistle and linen A pinkish mauve, softened twice. #B784A7 · #D8BFD8 · #FAF0E6
Thistle, sage and ivory A very pale purple with sage. #D8BFD8 · #BCB88A · #FFFFF0

Dusty pinks 8

Copper rose, pastel pink and parchment A grayed copper pink with a chalky light one. #996666 · #DEA5A4 · #F1E9D2
Mauve taupe, pale pink and champagne A dusky mauve-pink and a pale one. #915F6D · #FADADD · #F7E7CE
Old rose, taupe gray and snow Rose and a warm gray. #C08081 · #8B8589 · #FFFAFA
Old rose, tea rose and ivory Dusty rose and a lighter pink of the same kind. #C08081 · #F4C2C2 · #FFFFF0
Pastel pink, laurel green and cream Chalky pink with a pale gray-green. #DEA5A4 · #A9BA9D · #FFFDD0
Rose taupe, cameo pink and eggshell Rose taupe: pink taken halfway to brown. #905D5D · #EFBBCC · #F0EAD6
Rosy brown, misty rose and linen A pink with brown in it, on a near-white pink. #BC8F8F · #FFE4E1 · #FAF0E6
Rosy brown, tan and ivory Pink and tan, close to bare clay. #BC8F8F · #D2B48C · #FFFFF0

Earth neutrals 8

Camel, wheat and cream Camel with the color of ripe grain. #C19A6B · #F5DEB3 · #FFFDD0
Dark khaki, beige and old lace A yellowish khaki on pale beige. #BDB76B · #F5F5DC · #FDF5E6
Ecru, sage and ivory Ecru and sage: straw and leaf. #C2B280 · #BCB88A · #FFFFF0
French beige, champagne and white A milky coffee brown on white. #A67B5B · #F7E7CE · #FFFFFF
Khaki, ecru and linen Khaki with two colors of undyed cloth. #C3B091 · #C2B280 · #FAF0E6
Tan, beige and ivory Three steps of undyed-looking color. #D2B48C · #F5F5DC · #FFFFF0
Taupe gray, tan and parchment Gray and tan, with a paper-colored pale. #8B8589 · #D2B48C · #F1E9D2
Umber, burlywood and eggshell A dark earth brown with a light wood brown. #635147 · #DEB887 · #F0EAD6

Dusty blues 8

Cadet blue, pale aqua and linen A blue with some green in it, on linen. #5F9EA0 · #BED3E5 · #FAF0E6
Cool grey, light steel blue and ghost white Gray mixed with blue, on a cool white. #8C92AC · #B0C4DE · #F8F8FF
Glaucous, light steel blue and ivory A gray-blue and its paler match. #6082B6 · #B0C4DE · #FFFFF0
Light slate gray, powder blue and snow A gray that is nearly blue, with a pale one beside it. #778899 · #B0E0E6 · #FFFAFA
Light steel blue, slate gray, sage and ivory Pale blue, slate and sage: sea-glass colors. #B0C4DE · #708090 · #BCB88A · #FFFFF0
Queen blue, cadet grey and parchment A deeper blue that stays soft. #436B95 · #91A3B0 · #F1E9D2
Slate gray, pale aqua and white Slate with a pale, powdery blue. #708090 · #BED3E5 · #FFFFFF
Slate gray, tan and cream Blue-gray, warmed by tan. #708090 · #D2B48C · #FFFDD0

How it works

These muted wedding colors are natural, grayed shades with no bright color among them. Each scheme is a swatch with its hex codes.

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What makes a color muted

In color theory a tone is a color mixed with gray, and mixing a color with any neutral lowers its chroma, its colorfulness. That is what muted means here: every color in these schemes is a tone or a pale tint with a low-chroma code, and none is at full strength.

The natural colors

The earth neutrals are the most natural of them. Beige takes its name from the French word for wool left undyed and unbleached, and ecru is French for raw or unbleached, first the color of linen left that way. Tan, camel, khaki and umber sit beside them.

Questions and answers

What are natural wedding colors?

Here, colors that look undyed or come from plants and earth: beige, ecru, tan, camel and khaki, with sage or moss green. Start with Tan, beige and ivory, Khaki, ecru and linen or Ecru, sage and ivory.

What are muted wedding colors?

Colors toned down with gray, so none is bright. Glaucous, light steel blue and ivory is a dusty blue scheme, Old rose, tea rose and ivory a dusty pink one and Sage, laurel green and ivory a gray-green one.

What are the hex codes for dusty blue, dusty rose and sage?

The color list this page follows prints no dusty blue or dusty rose. The nearest names are glaucous (#6082B6) and slate gray (#708090) for the blue and old rose (#C08081) for the pink. Sage is #BCB88A.

Notes

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More notes about this page

Results are random and meant for fun, practice and planning. Do not rely on them for a decision that matters.

How this list was compiled: Every scheme is our own grouping of three or four muted colors with a pale neutral last, sorted by hue. Muted is measured on the code: the gap between the largest and the smallest of a color's red, green and blue values is at most 36 in 100 of the full range for every color in the list, so none is at full strength. Nothing here is a rule of etiquette, and no color is said to mean anything. Each color name and its hex code are taken as printed in Wikipedia's List of colors (A–F, G–M and N–Z: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A%E2%80%93F, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_G%E2%80%93M, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_N%E2%80%93Z), read 12 October 2026. Every name and code in this list was compared with those three pages that day, and no color named after a paint maker, a crayon maker, a school or a product is used. One name is shortened in a scheme's name: Khaki is the list's Khaki (web). The words accent and neutral follow Wikipedia's Color scheme article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_scheme), read the same day. The bands of each swatch and the hex codes run in the order the name gives them. What a tone is, and that mixing a color with a neutral lowers its chroma, is from Wikipedia's Tint, shade and tone article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tint,_shade_and_tone); where the words beige and ecru come from is from its Beige and Ecru articles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecru), all read the same day. Ecru has the same code as the list's Sand, and Camel the same as its Desert and Fallow. The list prints no dusty blue and no dusty rose. Licence: own work