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Saturated Venus Violet

#602ac9
Notes

Saturated Venus Violet (#602AC9) is a true indigo with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (260°, 65%, 48%) 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 lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#602ac9
RGB
rgb(96, 42, 201)
HSL
hsl(260, 65%, 48%)
HWB
hwb(260 16% 21%)
OKLCH
oklch(46.4% 0.223 290.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3497 0.1766 0.7583)
HSV
hsv(260, 79%, 79%)
LAB
lab(34.72% 58.55 -72.80)
LCH
lch(34.72% 93.43 308.81)
CMYK
cmyk(52%, 79%, 0%, 21%)

Etymology

Saturated
adjective

From the Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, to fill. A technical color term in modern usage — saturation is one of the three axes of HSL (with hue and lightness). As a modifier, saturated implies that the hue is at or near its maximum chromatic intensity. Sits at the bold-and-bright top of the grid.

Venus
modifier

Latin Venus, Roman-goddess-and-second-planet. As a color modifier, venus implies a Roman-goddess-and-second-planet-and-morning-evening-star quality, the visual register of Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus-and-Pompeii-fresco hand-Roman-goddess-and-second-planet-and-morning-evening-star Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus-and-Pompeii-fresco-and-Aphrodite-Hellenic venus-and-Roman-goddess-and-second-planet surfaces under Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus-and-Pompeii-fresco-and-Aphrodite-Hellenic Florentine-and-Pompeian dawn-and-dusk-evening-star-light. Sits at the modifier-and-zodiac end of the grid, parallel to jupiter and saturn in usage.

Violet
noun

Viola odorata, the European sweet violet — small, fragrant, and the original meaning of the color name in English (the Violet of the rainbow). The color refers to a fresh sweet violet blossom in late winter: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep blue-purple with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower. Cooler than amethyst, warmer than indigo, with the perfumed weight of a flower used in Roman garlands and Victorian eau de toilette.

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.

#602ac9
Original
#0054cd
Protanopia
#004ec6
Deuteranopia
#39587a
Tritanopia
#414141
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).
AAAon White
7.86:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.67:1

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
##602AC9
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3497 0.1766 0.7583)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.223

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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