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Untroubled Mandevilla

#f3c7df
Notes

Untroubled Mandevilla (#F3C7DF) is a soft magenta with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (327°, 65%, 87%) 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f3c7df
RGB
rgb(243, 199, 223)
HSL
hsl(327, 65%, 87%)
HWB
hwb(327 78% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(87.5% 0.059 344.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9254 0.7869 0.8696)
HSV
hsv(327, 18%, 95%)
LAB
lab(84.60% 19.41 -6.01)
LCH
lch(84.60% 20.32 342.80)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 18%, 8%, 5%)

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.

Mandevilla
noun

South American rocktrumpet (Mandevilla sanderi) — a tropical Apocynaceae twining-vine cultivated worldwide for its trumpet-shaped deep-magenta flowers held above glossy evergreen foliage. Mandevilla color refers to a fully opened Mandevilla sanderi trumpet flower: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh fused-petaled trumpet corolla. Named for Henry Mandeville, English diplomat in Buenos Aires.

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.

#f3c7df
Original
#c9cfe0
Protanopia
#d3d6de
Deuteranopia
#f9c7cf
Tritanopia
#d2d2d2
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
1.50:1
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
14.05:1

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
##F3C7DF
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9254 0.7869 0.8696)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.059

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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