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Fiery Brunnera

#20a7f9
Notes

Fiery Brunnera (#20A7F9) is a true azure with a neon character. It sits at the high-saturation edge of its family. Use it sparingly, as signage, accent, or highlight against darker surfaces. Its HSL profile (203°, 95%, 55%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary orange. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#20a7f9
RGB
rgb(32, 167, 249)
HSL
hsl(203, 95%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(203 13% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(70.0% 0.161 242.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3142 0.6454 0.9504)
HSV
hsv(203, 87%, 98%)
LAB
lab(65.58% -5.59 -50.23)
LCH
lch(65.58% 50.54 263.65)
CMYK
cmyk(87%, 33%, 0%, 2%)

Etymology

Fiery
adjective

Old English fȳr, fire — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, fiery implies a saturated-and-bright-flaming quality, the bright color of autumn-foliage fall-color and forge-furnace hot-iron emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to flaming and blazing in usage.

Brunnera
noun

The genus BrunneraSiberian bugloss, the shade-garden perennial whose forget-me-not-style flowers appear in early spring. B. macrophylla 'Jack Frost' has silver-marbled foliage prized in shade gardens. The color refers to a fresh brunnera flower spike: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#20a7f9
Original
#80aafd
Protanopia
#6297f7
Deuteranopia
#00bbc4
Tritanopia
#909090
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
2.64:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
7.96:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##20A7F9
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3142 0.6454 0.9504)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.161

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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