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Sure Brunnera

#58aee5
Notes

Sure Brunnera (#58AEE5) is a true azure with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (203°, 73%, 62%) 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 orange. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#58aee5
RGB
rgb(88, 174, 229)
HSL
hsl(203, 73%, 62%)
HWB
hwb(203 35% 10%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.0% 0.116 239.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4307 0.6744 0.8786)
HSV
hsv(203, 62%, 90%)
LAB
lab(68.02% -9.68 -35.38)
LCH
lch(68.02% 36.68 254.69)
CMYK
cmyk(62%, 24%, 0%, 10%)

Etymology

Sure
adjective

Old French seur, certain — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as confident and stable. Sure red, sure blue: moderate saturation combined with optical commitment. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside steady and true.

Brunnera
noun

The genus BrunneraSiberian bugloss, the shade-garden perennial whose forget-me-not-style flowers appear in early spring. B. macrophylla 'Jack Frost' has silver-marbled foliage prized in shade gardens. The color refers to a fresh brunnera flower spike: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower.

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.

#58aee5
Original
#95aee8
Protanopia
#82a0e4
Deuteranopia
#00bcc1
Tritanopia
#a0a0a0
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).
Failon White
2.44:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.60:1

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
##58AEE5
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4307 0.6744 0.8786)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.116

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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