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Drawn Ibiza

#517090
Notes

Drawn Ibiza (#517090) is a true azure 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 (210°, 28%, 44%) places it in the muted 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 orange. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#517090
RGB
rgb(81, 112, 144)
HSL
hsl(210, 28%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(210 32% 44%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.4% 0.062 249.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3431 0.4358 0.5536)
HSV
hsv(210, 44%, 56%)
LAB
lab(46.11% -2.28 -20.99)
LCH
lch(46.11% 21.11 263.79)
CMYK
cmyk(44%, 22%, 0%, 44%)

Etymology

Drawn
adjective

Old English dragan, to draw — past-participle of draw. As a color modifier, drawn implies a clear-and-line-and-mark quality, the crisp color of Old-Master-and-Modernist hand-drawn studio-and-life-class observational-drawing graphite-and-charcoal lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and drafted in usage.

Ibiza
noun

The Balearic Spanish island — and the saturated blue of Ibizan beach water at Ses Salines and Cala Comte. Ibiza color refers to the cove water at Cala Comte at sunset: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical depth of warm Balearic Mediterranean water.

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.

#517090
Original
#637191
Protanopia
#5c6a8f
Deuteranopia
#39777b
Tritanopia
#6c6c6c
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
5.16:1
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
4.07:1

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
##517090
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3431 0.4358 0.5536)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.062

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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