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Untroubled Jaipur

#b7bfe3
Notes

Untroubled Jaipur (#B7BFE3) is a soft blue with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (229°, 44%, 80%) 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
#b7bfe3
RGB
rgb(183, 191, 227)
HSL
hsl(229, 44%, 80%)
HWB
hwb(229 72% 11%)
OKLCH
oklch(81.0% 0.052 275.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7233 0.7480 0.8783)
HSV
hsv(229, 19%, 89%)
LAB
lab(77.80% 4.68 -18.84)
LCH
lch(77.80% 19.41 283.96)
CMYK
cmyk(19%, 16%, 0%, 11%)

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.

Jaipur
noun

The Indian Pink City of Rajasthan, capital of the former Jaipur State of the Rajputana — historical depot for the lapis lazuli trade between Afghanistan and the courts of Hindustan, and home of Sanganeri indigo block-printing. Jaipur color refers to a Sanganeri-block-printed muslin: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the matte finish of multi-bath fermentation indigo on hand-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.

#b7bfe3
Original
#b5c2e5
Protanopia
#b2bfe2
Deuteranopia
#adc5cb
Tritanopia
#c0c0c0
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
1.81:1
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
11.57:1

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
##B7BFE3
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7233 0.7480 0.8783)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.052

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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