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Plentiful Rocky

#3549a6
Notes

Plentiful Rocky (#3549A6) is a true blue with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (229°, 52%, 43%) 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
#3549a6
RGB
rgb(53, 73, 166)
HSL
hsl(229, 52%, 43%)
HWB
hwb(229 21% 35%)
OKLCH
oklch(44.5% 0.151 270.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2241 0.2841 0.6283)
HSV
hsv(229, 68%, 65%)
LAB
lab(34.55% 23.79 -52.54)
LCH
lch(34.55% 57.67 294.36)
CMYK
cmyk(68%, 56%, 0%, 35%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Rocky
noun

The North American mountain range — and the saturated deep blue of Rocky Mountain alpine lakes (Bear Lake, Sapphire Lake, Lake Louise) at high altitude. Rocky refers to Sapphire Lake in Montana's Glacier National Park: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical clarity of glacier-fed alpine lake.

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.

#3549a6
Original
#0057a9
Protanopia
#004ca4
Deuteranopia
#005f70
Tritanopia
#4b4b4b
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
7.91:1
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
2.66:1

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
##3549A6
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2241 0.2841 0.6283)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.151

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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