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Easy Iconostasis

#f3c2fb
Notes

Easy Iconostasis (#F3C2FB) is a soft violet with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (292°, 88%, 87%) 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 green. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f3c2fb
RGB
rgb(243, 194, 251)
HSL
hsl(292, 88%, 87%)
HWB
hwb(292 76% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(87.5% 0.093 321.6)
HSV
hsv(292, 23%, 98%)
LAB
lab(84.28% 27.04 -21.40)
LCH
lch(84.28% 34.49 321.63)
CMYK
cmyk(3%, 23%, 0%, 2%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Iconostasis
noun

Russian and Greek Orthodox icon screen — the multi-tier wall of religious icons that separates the naos (nave) from the bema (sanctuary) in an Orthodox church, traditionally rendered in deep-violet-and-gold-leaf. Iconostasis color refers to a 14th-century Novgorod-school iconostasis royal-doors panel: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of egg-tempera ultramarine-and-cinnabar on gilt gesso ground.

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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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.

#f3c2fb
Original
#bdcffd
Protanopia
#c7d4f9
Deuteranopia
#f5c7d6
Tritanopia
#d1d1d1
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
1.51:1
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
13.92:1

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