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Untroubled Indaco

#a7c6fe
Notes

Untroubled Indaco (#A7C6FE) is a soft azure with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (219°, 98%, 83%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light 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 amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#a7c6fe
RGB
rgb(167, 198, 254)
HSL
hsl(219, 98%, 83%)
HWB
hwb(219 65% 0%)
OKLCH
oklch(82.4% 0.086 262.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6786 0.7728 0.9776)
HSV
hsv(219, 34%, 100%)
LAB
lab(79.48% 2.62 -30.87)
LCH
lch(79.48% 30.98 274.85)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 22%, 0%, 0%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Indaco
noun

The Italian word for indigo — borrowed via Greek indikon (Indian thing). Indaco in Italian art vocabulary refers specifically to the deep-blue plant-dye pigment used in Italian Renaissance painting for the Marian mantles and aristocratic dress. The color refers to indaco pigment in tempera: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue. The Italian cousin of indigo.

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.

#a7c6fe
Original
#b3c9ff
Protanopia
#aac1fd
Deuteranopia
#8dd2d9
Tritanopia
#c3c3c3
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
1.73:1
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
12.15:1

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
##A7C6FE
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6786 0.7728 0.9776)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.086

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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