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Bountiful Diadem

#5661b8
Notes

Bountiful Diadem (#5661B8) is a true blue 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 (233°, 41%, 53%) 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
#5661b8
RGB
rgb(86, 97, 184)
HSL
hsl(233, 41%, 53%)
HWB
hwb(233 34% 28%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.7% 0.136 275.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3454 0.3791 0.6991)
HSV
hsv(233, 53%, 72%)
LAB
lab(44.21% 20.84 -47.50)
LCH
lch(44.21% 51.87 293.69)
CMYK
cmyk(53%, 47%, 0%, 28%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Diadem
noun

Greek diádēma, bound-around — the imperial-and-royal headband adopted into Western regalia from the Persian Achaemenid royal kidaris. The British Imperial State Crown's diadem features the deep-blue Stuart Sapphire. Diadem color refers to the Stuart Sapphire face of the Imperial State Crown's diadem: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the glassy finish of polished Ceylon sapphire under display lighting.

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.

#5661b8
Original
#3a6dbb
Protanopia
#2e65b6
Deuteranopia
#297483
Tritanopia
#656565
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
5.53:1
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
3.80:1

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
##5661B8
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3454 0.3791 0.6991)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.136

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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