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Easy Tibet

#7586d3
Notes

Easy Tibet (#7586D3) 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°, 52%, 64%) 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
#7586d3
RGB
rgb(117, 134, 211)
HSL
hsl(229, 52%, 64%)
HWB
hwb(229 46% 17%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.9% 0.117 273.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4715 0.5234 0.8056)
HSV
hsv(229, 45%, 83%)
LAB
lab(57.59% 13.96 -41.60)
LCH
lch(57.59% 43.88 288.55)
CMYK
cmyk(45%, 36%, 0%, 17%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Tibet
noun

The high-altitude plateau of central Asia — and the saturated deep blue of Tibetan prayer-flag (lung-ta) blue panels and the deep blue of Tibetan summer sky at 4,000-meter altitude. Tibet refers to a fresh Tibetan prayer-flag blue panel: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of cotton-dyed prayer flag.

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.

#7586d3
Original
#6a8ed6
Protanopia
#6287d1
Deuteranopia
#5496a2
Tritanopia
#888888
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
3.44:1
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
6.11:1

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
##7586D3
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4715 0.5234 0.8056)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.117

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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