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Unyielding Gin

#5374d2
Notes

Unyielding Gin (#5374D2) is a true azure with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (224°, 59%, 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
#5374d2
RGB
rgb(83, 116, 210)
HSL
hsl(224, 59%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(224 33% 18%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.1% 0.149 267.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3528 0.4513 0.7983)
HSV
hsv(224, 60%, 82%)
LAB
lab(50.67% 17.03 -52.15)
LCH
lch(50.67% 54.86 288.08)
CMYK
cmyk(60%, 45%, 0%, 18%)

Etymology

Unyielding
adjective

Old English un- (negation) plus gildan (to give-up). As a color modifier, unyielding implies a saturated-and-uncompromising quality where the hue refuses to fade-or-shift under any visual pressure. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to indomitable and adamant in usage.

Gin
noun

The juniper-flavored distilled spirit — and the saturated deep blue of Bombay Sapphire-bottle glass and Hendrick's-style apothecary-style packaging. Gin color refers to a fresh-poured gin bottle in a bar light: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the high gloss of dyed glass.

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.

#5374d2
Original
#487fd6
Protanopia
#3573d0
Deuteranopia
#008999
Tritanopia
#747474
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
4.38:1
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
4.80:1

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
##5374D2
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3528 0.4513 0.7983)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.149

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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