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Untroubled Lingonberry

#793565
Notes

Untroubled Lingonberry (#793565) is a deep magenta with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (318°, 39%, 34%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary green. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#793565
RGB
rgb(121, 53, 101)
HSL
hsl(318, 39%, 34%)
HWB
hwb(318 21% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(43.7% 0.113 340.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4412 0.2231 0.3876)
HSV
hsv(318, 56%, 47%)
LAB
lab(33.03% 36.01 -14.35)
LCH
lch(33.03% 38.77 338.27)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 56%, 17%, 53%)

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.

Lingonberry
noun

Eurasian Vaccinium vitis-idaea — a small alpine Ericaceae native to the Scandinavian boreal forest, whose deep-magenta drupe is the eponymous fruit-base of Swedish lingonberry jam (the IKEA dining-hall standard). Lingonberry color refers to a freshly hand-picked Vaccinium vitis-idaea drupe-cluster in a Småland forest: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich lingonberry skin and pulp.

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.

#793565
Original
#384767
Protanopia
#4b5263
Deuteranopia
#803648
Tritanopia
#474747
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).
AAAon White
8.37:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.51:1

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
##793565
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4412 0.2231 0.3876)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.113

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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