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Heavy Volgograd

#336ab9
Notes

Heavy Volgograd (#336AB9) is a true azure 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 (215°, 57%, 46%) 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
#336ab9
RGB
rgb(51, 106, 185)
HSL
hsl(215, 57%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(215 20% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.8% 0.137 257.8)
HSV
hsv(215, 72%, 73%)
LAB
lab(44.96% 9.07 -46.99)
LCH
lch(44.96% 47.86 280.93)
CMYK
cmyk(72%, 43%, 0%, 27%)

Etymology

Heavy
adjective

Old English hefig, weighty — cognate with heave. Used as a color modifier since at least the seventeenth century to indicate weight in saturation as much as value: heavy with pigment, heavy-bodied. In the engine's adjective grid, heavy sits alongside deep and plush in the dark-and-saturated quadrant. Closer to a fabric description than a pure value word.

Volgograd
noun

The Russian city on the Volga River (formerly Stalingrad) — and the deep blue of the Volga River and the surrounding steppe sky. Volgograd refers to mid-depth Volga River water: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical complexity of major continental river water.

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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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.

#336ab9
Original
#4471bc
Protanopia
#2c65b7
Deuteranopia
#007c88
Tritanopia
#646464
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).
AAon White
5.38:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.90:1

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