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Peaceful Tatra

#644f77
Notes

Peaceful Tatra (#644F77) is a true indigo 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 (272°, 20%, 39%) 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 lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#644f77
RGB
rgb(100, 79, 119)
HSL
hsl(272, 20%, 39%)
HWB
hwb(272 31% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(46.5% 0.068 307.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3791 0.3130 0.4563)
HSV
hsv(272, 34%, 47%)
LAB
lab(37.18% 17.23 -19.51)
LCH
lch(37.18% 26.03 311.46)
CMYK
cmyk(16%, 34%, 0%, 53%)

Etymology

Peaceful
adjective

Latin pāx, peace — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, peaceful implies a clear-and-restful-and-calm quality where the hue carries the visual register of Quaker-meeting-house still-and-meditative interior atmosphere. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Tatra
noun

Carpathian high-mountain range straddling Poland and Slovakia — its alpine tatran peaks above 2,000m support some of Europe's last Soldanella alpina and Gentiana clusii deep-violet alpine flora. Tatra color refers to a Soldanella alpina corolla on a High Tatras alpine ledge: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the velvet finish of fresh alpine snowbell petal under high-altitude light.

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.

#644f77
Original
#485779
Protanopia
#4c5876
Deuteranopia
#62555e
Tritanopia
#565656
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
7.18:1
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
2.93:1

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
##644F77
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3791 0.3130 0.4563)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.068

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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