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Shielded Susa

#692fb3
Notes

Shielded Susa (#692FB3) is a true indigo with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (266°, 58%, 44%) 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
#692fb3
RGB
rgb(105, 47, 179)
HSL
hsl(266, 58%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(266 18% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(45.9% 0.195 298.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3829 0.1970 0.6763)
HSV
hsv(266, 74%, 70%)
LAB
lab(34.58% 52.04 -60.04)
LCH
lch(34.58% 79.45 310.92)
CMYK
cmyk(41%, 74%, 0%, 30%)

Etymology

Shielded
adjective

Old English scild, shield — past-participle of shield, sharing root with German Schild. As a color modifier, shielded implies a saturated-and-protected-and-defensive quality, the deep-rich color of medieval-knight armorial-shield-and-coat-of-arms heraldic display. Sits at the bold-and-fortified end of the grid, parallel to armored and bastioned.

Susa
noun

Persian Achaemenid winter capital — and the imperial court color storehouse for Tyrian purple tribute textiles imported from Phoenician Tyre and Sidon under Darius I (522–486 BCE). Susa color refers to a Susa-stored Achaemenid royal kandys coat: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of multi-bath shellfish-dye on Persian-court silk-and-wool blend.

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.

#692fb3
Original
#0051b7
Protanopia
#0050b0
Deuteranopia
#57516e
Tritanopia
#454545
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
7.90:1
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
2.66:1

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
##692FB3
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3829 0.1970 0.6763)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.195

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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