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Level Robe Kingfisher

#3da1b4
Notes

Level Robe Kingfisher (#3DA1B4) is a true cyan 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 (190°, 49%, 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#3da1b4
RGB
rgb(61, 161, 180)
HSL
hsl(190, 49%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(190 24% 29%)
OKLCH
oklch(65.9% 0.095 212.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3520 0.6231 0.6959)
HSV
hsv(190, 66%, 71%)
LAB
lab(61.46% -22.73 -18.36)
LCH
lch(61.46% 29.22 218.92)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 11%, 0%, 29%)

Etymology

Level
adjective

Latin libella, small-balance / level-tool — sharing root with libra (balance). As a color modifier, level implies a clear-and-horizontal-true quality where the hue carries the visual register of gravity-perpendicular-and-perfectly-horizontal surface. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to plumb and flat in usage.

Robe
modifier

Old French robe, long-flowing-garment. As a color modifier, robe implies a long-flowing-and-academic-and-judicial quality, the visual register of Oxford-Cambridge-academic-and-judicial-robe hand-long-flowing-and-academic-and-judicial Oxford-Cambridge-academic-and-judicial-robe-and-monastic-habit robe-and-long-flowing-and-academic surfaces under Oxford-Cambridge-academic-and-judicial-robe-and-monastic-habit Senate-and-Inns-of-Court-and-cathedral-cloister Trinity-Senior-Common-Room-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to gown and cope in usage.

Kingfisher
noun

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.

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.

#3da1b4
Original
#929cb5
Protanopia
#818fb4
Deuteranopia
#00a9a7
Tritanopia
#8d8d8d
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).
AA Largeon White
3.02:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
6.96:1

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
##3DA1B4
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3520 0.6231 0.6959)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.095

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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