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Untroubled Browallia

#74a1d6
Notes

Untroubled Browallia (#74A1D6) 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 (212°, 54%, 65%) 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
#74a1d6
RGB
rgb(116, 161, 214)
HSL
hsl(212, 54%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(212 45% 16%)
OKLCH
oklch(69.7% 0.092 253.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4922 0.6265 0.8216)
HSV
hsv(212, 46%, 84%)
LAB
lab(65.01% -1.04 -31.70)
LCH
lch(65.01% 31.71 268.12)
CMYK
cmyk(46%, 25%, 0%, 16%)

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.

Browallia
noun

The genus Browalliaamethyst flower or bush violet, a tropical-American annual with deep blue-violet flowers used in summer bedding. The color refers to a fresh B. speciosa bloom: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the satin finish of trumpet-shaped flower.

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.

#74a1d6
Original
#8ca3d8
Protanopia
#8099d5
Deuteranopia
#4cadb3
Tritanopia
#9b9b9b
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
2.69:1
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
7.81:1

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
##74A1D6
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4922 0.6265 0.8216)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.092

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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