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Hospitable Yogyakarta

#6fbaf9
Notes

Hospitable Yogyakarta (#6FBAF9) is a soft 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 (207°, 92%, 71%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#6fbaf9
RGB
rgb(111, 186, 249)
HSL
hsl(207, 92%, 71%)
HWB
hwb(207 44% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.5% 0.118 245.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5042 0.7220 0.9551)
HSV
hsv(207, 55%, 98%)
LAB
lab(73.11% -5.67 -38.26)
LCH
lch(73.11% 38.68 261.57)
CMYK
cmyk(55%, 25%, 0%, 2%)

Etymology

Hospitable
adjective

Latin hospitābilis, of-the-host — adjectival suffix -able. As a color modifier, hospitable implies a clear-and-cordial-and-welcoming quality where the hue carries the visual register of Bed-and-Breakfast and country-inn warm-cordial-host atmosphere. Sits at the crisp-and-cheerful end of the grid, parallel to welcoming and inviting in usage.

Yogyakarta
noun

The Indonesian Javanese cultural capital — and the deep blue of batik textiles produced in the Kraton (royal palace) and Imogiri royal-cemetery workshops. Yogyakarta color refers to a batik tulis deep-blue silk: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the satin finish of indigo-and-soga (resist-dye) batik.

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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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.

#6fbaf9
Original
#9fbbfc
Protanopia
#8dadf8
Deuteranopia
#00c9d0
Tritanopia
#afafaf
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
2.09:1
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
10.07:1

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
##6FBAF9
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5042 0.7220 0.9551)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.118

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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