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Indomitable Soldanella

#8e59c2
Notes

Indomitable Soldanella (#8E59C2) 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 (270°, 46%, 55%) 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 lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#8e59c2
RGB
rgb(142, 89, 194)
HSL
hsl(270, 46%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(270 35% 24%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.9% 0.162 305.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5273 0.3584 0.7374)
HSV
hsv(270, 54%, 76%)
LAB
lab(48.00% 42.21 -46.97)
LCH
lch(48.00% 63.15 311.94)
CMYK
cmyk(27%, 54%, 0%, 24%)

Etymology

Indomitable
adjective

Latin indomitābilis, unconquerable — derived from domāre (to tame). As a color modifier, indomitable implies a saturated-and-unconquerable-and-fierce quality where the hue resists any attempt to subdue or modulate its presence. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to unyielding and adamant.

Soldanella
noun

European alpine snowbells (Soldanella alpina) — small alpine perennials whose fringed bell-flowers emerge through the spring snowmelt across the Alps and Carpathians. Soldanella color refers to a fully opened Soldanella alpina fringed bell-flower: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the velvet finish of finely fringed bell-corolla. The genus name comes from the Italian soldo (small coin), after the round-leaf shape.

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.

#8e59c2
Original
#3570c6
Protanopia
#4772bf
Deuteranopia
#856c85
Tritanopia
#6c6c6c
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).
AAon White
4.82:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
4.36:1

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
##8E59C2
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5273 0.3584 0.7374)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.162

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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