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Untroubled Pennant

#7d8fc6
Notes

Untroubled Pennant (#7D8FC6) 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 (225°, 39%, 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 amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#7d8fc6
RGB
rgb(125, 143, 198)
HSL
hsl(225, 39%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(225 49% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(65.7% 0.085 270.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5037 0.5586 0.7596)
HSV
hsv(225, 37%, 78%)
LAB
lab(59.96% 7.12 -30.54)
LCH
lch(59.96% 31.36 283.13)
CMYK
cmyk(37%, 28%, 0%, 22%)

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.

Pennant
noun

A long triangular flag flown by warships — particularly the British Royal Navy commissioning pennant (a long blue-and-white streamer flown when a ship is in active commission). Pennant color refers to a fresh commissioning pennant: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of dyed flag bunting.

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.

#7d8fc6
Original
#7d94c8
Protanopia
#778ec5
Deuteranopia
#679aa2
Tritanopia
#8f8f8f
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
3.17:1
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
6.62:1

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
##7D8FC6
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5037 0.5586 0.7596)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.085

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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