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Untroubled Loropetalum

#605f90
Notes

Untroubled Loropetalum (#605F90) is a true blue 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 (241°, 21%, 47%) 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 yellow. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#605f90
RGB
rgb(96, 95, 144)
HSL
hsl(241, 21%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(241 37% 44%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.7% 0.077 284.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3758 0.3727 0.5509)
HSV
hsv(241, 34%, 56%)
LAB
lab(42.28% 12.51 -26.84)
LCH
lch(42.28% 29.61 295.00)
CMYK
cmyk(33%, 34%, 0%, 44%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Loropetalum
noun

Asian Chinese fringe flower (Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum) — an evergreen shrub native to southern China cultivated worldwide for its strap-like fringed flowers and burgundy foliage. Loropetalum color refers to a L. chinense flush of fringed flowers on burgundy foliage: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the velvet finish of dense ribbon-petal flowers. The genus name combines Greek loros (strap) and petalon (petal).

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.

#605f90
Original
#506592
Protanopia
#4f628f
Deuteranopia
#546871
Tritanopia
#636363
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
5.94:1
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
3.54:1

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
##605F90
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3758 0.3727 0.5509)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.077

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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