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Stable Udaipur

#6a4e9f
Notes

Stable Udaipur (#6A4E9F) 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 (261°, 34%, 46%) 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
#6a4e9f
RGB
rgb(106, 78, 159)
HSL
hsl(261, 34%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(261 31% 38%)
OKLCH
oklch(49.2% 0.127 297.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3989 0.3103 0.6044)
HSV
hsv(261, 51%, 62%)
LAB
lab(39.61% 30.06 -39.99)
LCH
lch(39.61% 50.03 306.93)
CMYK
cmyk(33%, 51%, 0%, 38%)

Etymology

Stable
adjective

Latin stabilis, standing-firm — sharing root with stand. As a color modifier, stable implies a clear-and-firm-and-unchanging quality where the hue carries the visual register of resistant-to-modulation-and-fade pigmentation. Sits at the crisp-and-firm end of the grid, parallel to steady and settled in usage.

Udaipur
noun

The Rajput City of Lakes in Mewar, Rajasthan — home of the Mewar court whose miniature paintings used ultramarine (powdered Afghan lapis) and indigo for the deep skies and royal robes. Udaipur color refers to a Mewar-school 17th-century miniature's lapis-and-indigo sky field: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the matte finish of mineral ultramarine on hand-prepared vasli paper.

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.

#6a4e9f
Original
#315ea2
Protanopia
#385c9d
Deuteranopia
#5e5e6f
Tritanopia
#5a5a5a
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
6.56:1
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
3.20:1

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
##6A4E9F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3989 0.3103 0.6044)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.127

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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