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Abundant Vestment

#9d69f5
Notes

Abundant Vestment (#9D69F5) 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 (262°, 88%, 69%) 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
#9d69f5
RGB
rgb(157, 105, 245)
HSL
hsl(262, 88%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(262 41% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(64.1% 0.202 297.5)
HSV
hsv(262, 57%, 96%)
LAB
lab(55.95% 49.72 -63.02)
LCH
lch(55.95% 80.28 308.27)
CMYK
cmyk(36%, 57%, 0%, 4%)

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.

Vestment
noun

Latin vestīmentum, garment — adopted into English as the technical term for ecclesiastical liturgical robes, particularly the deep-violet chasuble worn during Advent and Lent in the Roman Catholic and Anglican rites. Vestment color refers to a Roman-Catholic Lenten purple chasuble: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the matte finish of vat-dyed liturgical wool-and-silk damask.

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.

#9d69f5
Original
#1e86fa
Protanopia
#3685f2
Deuteranopia
#8986a5
Tritanopia
#7e7e7e
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
3.64:1
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
5.77:1

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