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Untroubled Antibes

#6da8e9
Notes

Untroubled Antibes (#6DA8E9) is a true azure 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 (211°, 74%, 67%) 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 orange. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#6da8e9
RGB
rgb(109, 168, 233)
HSL
hsl(211, 74%, 67%)
HWB
hwb(211 43% 9%)
OKLCH
oklch(71.8% 0.114 251.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4792 0.6528 0.8926)
HSV
hsv(211, 53%, 91%)
LAB
lab(67.38% -0.97 -38.50)
LCH
lch(67.38% 38.51 268.56)
CMYK
cmyk(53%, 28%, 0%, 9%)

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.

Antibes
noun

The French Riviera town between Cannes and Nice — and the saturated deep blue of the Côte d'Azur between Cap d'Antibes and the harbor. Antibes color refers to Cap d'Antibes sea water at midday: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical clarity of warm Mediterranean coast.

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.

#6da8e9
Original
#8eabec
Protanopia
#7e9fe8
Deuteranopia
#22b7bf
Tritanopia
#a0a0a0
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).
Failon White
2.49:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.43:1

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
##6DA8E9
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4792 0.6528 0.8926)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.114

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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