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Wellbred Lepidolite

#886fe1
Notes

Wellbred Lepidolite (#886FE1) is a true indigo 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 (253°, 66%, 66%) 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
#886fe1
RGB
rgb(136, 111, 225)
HSL
hsl(253, 66%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(253 44% 12%)
OKLCH
oklch(61.9% 0.167 290.8)
HSV
hsv(253, 51%, 88%)
LAB
lab(54.07% 36.23 -54.97)
LCH
lch(54.07% 65.84 303.38)
CMYK
cmyk(40%, 51%, 0%, 12%)

Etymology

Wellbred
adjective

Old English wel-brēd, well-bred — past-participle of breed, sharing root with brood (offspring). As a color modifier, wellbred implies a saturated-and-elegant-and-formal quality, the deep-rich color of Edwardian-period finishing-school-and-debutante-Court English-aristocratic livery. Sits at the bold-and-elegant end of the grid, parallel to highborn and patrician.

Lepidolite
noun

Lithium-bearing potassium mica — pink-to-violet from manganese substitution, sourced from Newry, Maine, and Tanco, Manitoba. The mineral was the Soviet space program's primary lithium source. Lepidolite color refers to a Newry lepidolite booklet on its native pegmatite matrix: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the silvery finish of foliated mica with lithium-substitution-induced violet coloration in the cleavage planes.

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.

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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.

#886fe1
Original
#4083e5
Protanopia
#437fde
Deuteranopia
#70869e
Tritanopia
#7d7d7d
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
3.88:1
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
5.41:1

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