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Steadfast Acai

#6a80e7
Notes

Steadfast Acai (#6A80E7) is a true blue 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 (229°, 72%, 66%) 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 amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#6a80e7
RGB
rgb(106, 128, 231)
HSL
hsl(229, 72%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(229 42% 9%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.2% 0.156 272.2)
HSV
hsv(229, 54%, 91%)
LAB
lab(56.36% 21.13 -54.80)
LCH
lch(56.36% 58.74 291.09)
CMYK
cmyk(54%, 45%, 0%, 9%)

Etymology

Steadfast
adjective

Old English stede-fæst, fixed in place — sharing root with German stetig. As a color modifier, steadfast implies a saturated-and-unwavering quality where the hue maintains its visual character without modulation. Sits at the bold-and-firm end of the grid, parallel to unwavering and firm in usage.

Acai
noun

Brazilian Portuguese for Euterpe oleracea — an Amazon-basin palm whose deep-purple-violet drupe was a quilombola and caboclo dietary staple before its 21st-century superfood commercialization. Acai color refers to a freshly pulped Euterpe oleracea drupe: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich palm-fruit pulp. The Tupi-derived word entered English via Portuguese in the 1990s.

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.

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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.

#6a80e7
Original
#538deb
Protanopia
#4382e5
Deuteranopia
#2897a8
Tritanopia
#838383
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).
AA Largeon White
3.59:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
5.85:1

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