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Established Pegasus Royal

#4466e1
Notes

Established Pegasus Royal (#4466E1) 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 (227°, 72%, 57%) 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
#4466e1
RGB
rgb(68, 102, 225)
HSL
hsl(227, 72%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(227 27% 12%)
OKLCH
oklch(55.5% 0.191 267.9)
HSV
hsv(227, 70%, 88%)
LAB
lab(47.19% 28.55 -66.29)
LCH
lch(47.19% 72.18 293.30)
CMYK
cmyk(70%, 55%, 0%, 12%)

Etymology

Established
adjective

Latin stabilīre, to make stable — past-participle of establish. As a color modifier, established implies a saturated-and-rooted quality where the hue carries the weight of long-standing visual presence. Sits at the bold-and-firm end of the grid, parallel to steadfast and anchored in usage.

Pegasus
modifier

Greek Πήγασος, winged-horse-of-myth. As a color modifier, pegasus implies a winged-horse-and-Great-Square quality, the visual register of Pegasus-Great-Square-and-winged-horse hand-winged-horse-and-Great-Square Pegasus-Great-Square-and-winged-horse-and-autumn-Pegasus pegasus-and-winged-horse-and-Great-Square surfaces under Pegasus-Great-Square-and-winged-horse-and-autumn-Pegasus October-and-November-autumn-zenith autumn-constellation-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to cygnus and draco in usage.

Royal
noun

The blue of European royal court dress and regalia from the late seventeenth century forward — the color of British peers' robes, French royal sashes, the lining of the crown-jewel cases. The color refers to a saturated, slightly violet-shifted blue with the matte finish of velvet or melton wool dyed to maximum intensity: deeper than cornflower, warmer than ultramarine, with the heraldic weight of a color reserved for monarchs and the official Crown.

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.

#4466e1
Original
#0077e5
Protanopia
#0069df
Deuteranopia
#00849a
Tritanopia
#686868
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
4.96:1
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
4.23:1

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