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Bountiful Glicine

#8965f2
Notes

Bountiful Glicine (#8965F2) 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 (255°, 84%, 67%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#8965f2
RGB
rgb(137, 101, 242)
HSL
hsl(255, 84%, 67%)
HWB
hwb(255 40% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(61.4% 0.202 291.0)
HSV
hsv(255, 58%, 95%)
LAB
lab(52.99% 46.78 -66.23)
LCH
lch(52.99% 81.08 305.24)
CMYK
cmyk(43%, 58%, 0%, 5%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Glicine
noun

Italian for Wisteria sinensis, the cascading purple-violet flowering vine introduced from China to European gardens in 1816. Glicine color refers to a fully bloomed Glicine raceme on a Tuscan pergola: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the velvet finish of dense pendulous wisteria racemes. Stocks as a fashion-color name in early-20th-century Italian millinery and Liberty-style enamels.

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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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.

#8965f2
Original
#0081f7
Protanopia
#057bef
Deuteranopia
#6a84a2
Tritanopia
#777777
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
4.03:1
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
5.21:1

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