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Abundant Atitlán

#8a78e1
Notes

Abundant Atitlán (#8A78E1) 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 (250°, 64%, 68%) 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
#8a78e1
RGB
rgb(138, 120, 225)
HSL
hsl(250, 64%, 68%)
HWB
hwb(250 47% 12%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.6% 0.154 289.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5295 0.4731 0.8562)
HSV
hsv(250, 47%, 88%)
LAB
lab(56.36% 31.48 -51.31)
LCH
lch(56.36% 60.20 301.53)
CMYK
cmyk(39%, 47%, 0%, 12%)

Etymology

Abundant
adjective

Latin abundāre, to overflow — present-participle of abound. As a color modifier, abundant implies a saturated-and-plentiful quality where the hue carries surplus visual richness beyond minimum requirement. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to plentiful and bountiful.

Atitlán
noun

Mayan-named volcanic crater lake in Guatemala's western highlands, surrounded by Tolimán, San Pedro, and Atitlán volcanoes. The lake's depth and volcanic basement give it an unusual deep blue-violet at certain light angles. Atitlán color refers to Lake Atitlán surface at crepuscule in clear weather: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the optical complexity of deep-water Rayleigh-scattered indigo light.

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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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.

#8a78e1
Original
#5189e5
Protanopia
#5285df
Deuteranopia
#738da2
Tritanopia
#838383
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
3.59:1
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
5.85:1

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
##8A78E1
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5295 0.4731 0.8562)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.154

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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