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Untroubled Vestment

#656797
Notes

Untroubled Vestment (#656797) 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 (238°, 20%, 49%) 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
#656797
RGB
rgb(101, 103, 151)
HSL
hsl(238, 20%, 49%)
HWB
hwb(238 40% 41%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.2% 0.075 281.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3975 0.4037 0.5783)
HSV
hsv(238, 33%, 59%)
LAB
lab(45.22% 11.04 -26.41)
LCH
lch(45.22% 28.62 292.69)
CMYK
cmyk(33%, 32%, 0%, 41%)

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.

Vestment
noun

Latin vestīmentum, garment — adopted into English as the technical term for ecclesiastical liturgical robes, particularly the deep-violet chasuble worn during Advent and Lent in the Roman Catholic and Anglican rites. Vestment color refers to a Roman-Catholic Lenten purple chasuble: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the matte finish of vat-dyed liturgical wool-and-silk damask.

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.

#656797
Original
#596d99
Protanopia
#566996
Deuteranopia
#587078
Tritanopia
#6a6a6a
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
5.33:1
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
3.94:1

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
##656797
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3975 0.4037 0.5783)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.075

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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