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Bountiful Hepatica

#324bbe
Notes

Bountiful Hepatica (#324BBE) is a true blue with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (229°, 58%, 47%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#324bbe
RGB
rgb(50, 75, 190)
HSL
hsl(229, 58%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(229 20% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(46.7% 0.182 268.8)
HSV
hsv(229, 74%, 75%)
LAB
lab(36.79% 30.87 -63.11)
LCH
lch(36.79% 70.25 296.06)
CMYK
cmyk(74%, 61%, 0%, 25%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Hepatica
noun

The genus Hepaticaliverwort flower, European-and-North-American spring-blooming perennials with saturated deep-blue flowers among the earliest to bloom in temperate forests. The color refers to a fresh H. nobilis in March: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the satin finish of six-tepaled spring 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.

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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.

#324bbe
Original
#005dc2
Protanopia
#0050bc
Deuteranopia
#00687d
Tritanopia
#4e4e4e
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).
AAAon White
7.28:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.89:1

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