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Plentiful Onando

#3e52da
Notes

Plentiful Onando (#3E52DA) is a true blue with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (232°, 68%, 55%) 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
#3e52da
RGB
rgb(62, 82, 218)
HSL
hsl(232, 68%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(232 24% 15%)
OKLCH
oklch(51.0% 0.207 270.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2591 0.3193 0.8240)
HSV
hsv(232, 72%, 85%)
LAB
lab(41.40% 37.85 -71.75)
LCH
lch(41.40% 81.12 297.81)
CMYK
cmyk(72%, 62%, 0%, 15%)

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.

Onando
noun

Japanese onando-iro (御納戸色) — honored storehouse color, the saturated grayed-blue of pre-modern Japanese clothing storehouse interiors. Traditional Edo-period onando was used in samurai household interiors and the linings of formal court dress. The color refers to a onando-painted Edo storehouse wall: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-gray with the matte finish of weathered distemper paint.

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.

#3e52da
Original
#0069de
Protanopia
#005bd7
Deuteranopia
#00758e
Tritanopia
#585858
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
6.13:1
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
3.42:1

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
##3E52DA
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2591 0.3193 0.8240)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.207

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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