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#696cbd color: Bluish Purple Anemone

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238°
100%

OKLCH

56.6%
0.124
280°
  • ≈ Steel blue
  • Indigo
  • Medium
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • slate-500
  • Black 26%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text4.69:1 · AALc -78
Black text4.48:1 · Below AALc 32

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About #696cbd

#696cbd is a soft indigo color. In OKLCH it has 56.6% lightness, 0.124 chroma and a hue of 280°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 4.69:1 contrast and black text 4.48:1, so white text reads better.

The closest named color is Bluish Purple Anemone (#6666bb). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is slate-500.

More medium indigo colors

Lighter: #696cbd mixed with white

  1. 696cbd
  2. 767bc4
  3. 8489cb
  4. 9298d2
  5. a1a6d9
  6. b0b5e0
  7. bfc3e7
  8. cfd2ed
  9. dfe1f3
  10. eff0f9

Darker: #696cbd mixed with black

  1. 696cbd
  2. 5a5da4
  3. 4c4e8c
  4. 3e4074
  5. 31325d
  6. 242547
  7. 181933
  8. 0c0d1f
  9. 04040d
  10. 000002

Calmer: #696cbd with less saturation

  1. 696cbd
  2. 6a6eb6
  3. 6b6faf
  4. 6c70a8
  5. 6d71a1
  6. 6f729a
  7. 707393
  8. 71748c
  9. 737585
  10. 74767e