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Indomitable Eustoma

#7469d9
Notes

Indomitable Eustoma (#7469D9) 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 (246°, 60%, 63%) 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 yellow. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#7469d9
RGB
rgb(116, 105, 217)
HSL
hsl(246, 60%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(246 41% 15%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.6% 0.166 284.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4476 0.4133 0.8238)
HSV
hsv(246, 52%, 85%)
LAB
lab(50.48% 32.84 -56.30)
LCH
lch(50.48% 65.17 300.25)
CMYK
cmyk(47%, 52%, 0%, 15%)

Etymology

Indomitable
adjective

Latin indomitābilis, unconquerable — derived from domāre (to tame). As a color modifier, indomitable implies a saturated-and-unconquerable-and-fierce quality where the hue resists any attempt to subdue or modulate its presence. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to unyielding and adamant.

Eustoma
noun

Mexican-Texan prairie gentian (Eustoma grandiflorum) — marketed worldwide as lisianthus, a long-stemmed cut-flower industry staple with deep-violet rose-form blooms. Eustoma color refers to a freshly cut Eustoma grandiflorum fully opened bloom: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the velvet finish of overlapping ruffled tepals. The Greek genus name eu-stoma means fine-mouthed, after the wide-throated corolla.

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.

#7469d9
Original
#337cdd
Protanopia
#2e75d7
Deuteranopia
#528197
Tritanopia
#737373
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
4.41:1
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
4.77:1

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
##7469D9
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4476 0.4133 0.8238)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.166

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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