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Bountiful Perovskia

#364e9e
Notes

Bountiful Perovskia (#364E9E) 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 (226°, 49%, 42%) 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
#364e9e
RGB
rgb(54, 78, 158)
HSL
hsl(226, 49%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(226 21% 38%)
OKLCH
oklch(45.0% 0.133 268.1)
HSV
hsv(226, 66%, 62%)
LAB
lab(35.40% 17.71 -46.36)
LCH
lch(35.40% 49.62 290.91)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 51%, 0%, 38%)

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.

Perovskia
noun

The genus PerovskiaRussian sage, the Central Asian woody perennial whose silver-leaved deep blue-violet flower spikes brave drought and cold. The color refers to a fresh Perovskia atriplicifolia in late summer: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the matte finish of small clustered mint-family flowers along upright stems.

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.

#364e9e
Original
#2258a1
Protanopia
#044f9c
Deuteranopia
#00616e
Tritanopia
#4f4f4f
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
7.66:1
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
2.74:1

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