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Settled Modré

#93b0ee
Notes

Settled Modré (#93B0EE) is a soft azure 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 (221°, 73%, 75%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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
#93b0ee
RGB
rgb(147, 176, 238)
HSL
hsl(221, 73%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(221 58% 7%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.9% 0.095 264.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5987 0.6868 0.9138)
HSV
hsv(221, 38%, 93%)
LAB
lab(71.84% 5.16 -34.13)
LCH
lch(71.84% 34.52 278.60)
CMYK
cmyk(38%, 26%, 0%, 7%)

Etymology

Settled
adjective

The past participle of settle, to come to rest — used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as stabilized after a process. Settled green, settled brown: moderate saturation combined with optical permanence. Sits at the crisp-bucket alongside steady and composed.

Modré
noun

The Czech word for blue — used for the saturated deep blue of Czech traditional Modrotisk (blue-print) folk-textile resist-dyeing. Modré covers the entire blue spectrum in Czech color vocabulary. The color refers to a freshly Modrotisk-printed cotton: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of plant-dyed-resist-printed cotton.

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.

#93b0ee
Original
#9bb5f1
Protanopia
#92aced
Deuteranopia
#76bdc5
Tritanopia
#aeaeae
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).
Failon White
2.17:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
9.69:1

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
##93B0EE
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5987 0.6868 0.9138)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.095

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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