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Amethyst Tone Soft
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Amethyst Tone Soft

Blue · Hue 245
Hex
#7C76BC
RGB
rgb(124, 118, 188)
HSL
hsl(245, 34%, 60%)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 37%, 0%, 26%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
4.1:1AA Large
on black
5.2:1AA
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About this color

Amethyst Tone Soft (#7C76BC) belongs to the blue family — hue 245°, 34% saturation, 60% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-amethyst-tone-soft: #7C76BC;
  --colorarchive-amethyst-tone-soft-hsl: hsl(245, 34%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-amethyst-tone-soft-rgb: rgb(124, 118, 188);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

ProfessionalReliableFocused
Common in

Banking · Insurance · Enterprise Software

Pairs well with

White for clean authority, light orange for warm contrast, dark navy for depth

Design tip

The backbone of business interfaces. Use for primary actions and navigation. Blue links are the web's universal convention.

Cultural context ▶

Blue is the world's most popular color. It represents trust, competence, and stability across virtually all cultures.

Color Origins

Blue family

The most-loved color on the planet, and the most overused.

Heritage

Blue is the rarest pigment in the natural world — and so, historically, the most expensive. Ultramarine, ground from lapis lazuli mined only in Afghanistan, was worth more than gold in Renaissance Europe; Vermeer's bills were enormous because of how much he used. Egyptian blue (the first synthetic pigment, ~3000 BCE) was lost for centuries and rediscovered in the 19th. Prussian blue (1704) democratized blue overnight; Yves Klein's IKB (1960) re-aristocratized it.

Across cultures

In ancient Egypt blue was the color of the Nile and the heavens — sacred, protective. In China blue-and-white porcelain (qinghua) defined export ceramics for 600 years. In Mediterranean traditions blue wards off the evil eye. In post-WWII America, blue became the corporate default ('IBM blue'); in Japan, indigo (ai) is the centuries-old workwear dye that became the ground tone of an entire textile tradition. Across the world blue is consistently rated the most-liked color — sometimes by 35% margins.

In the wild

Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. IBM's blue dates to 1947. Levi's blue is the natural color of indigo on cotton. Twitter Blue (#1DA1F2) defined social-media blue for a decade before X scrapped it. Pixar's Up famously runs on a single complementary palette built on blue. The blue checkmark, the blue link, the blue 'send' button — blue has become the default color of digital trust, to the point of being a UX cliché.

How it reads

Blue recedes — physically, the eye focuses blue light slightly behind the retina, which makes blue elements feel deep or distant. It reads as trustworthy, calm, corporate, and (at the cool end) cold. Light blues read airy and clinical; mid blues are the default for tech and finance; deep blues read as luxurious or naval. The omnipresence of blue in software is real: most enterprise UIs reach for it because it offends the fewest stakeholders, which is also the reason it can feel like the absence of a real choice.

This particular tone

A confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where most identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The clear, mid-saturation register is the most common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #7C76BC.

  • Linearprimary
    Linear Indigo · #5E6AD2
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #7C76BC.

  • France (Paris)Seine Steel
    #7E8A93 · River reflectivity in winter
    →
  • IrelandAtlantic Slate
    #5A6770 · Cliff face + winter sea
    →
  • MoroccoMajorelle Blue
    #6050DC · Jacques Majorelle's Marrakech garden, 1937
    →

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Amethyst Silk Soft
#9692C9 · hsl(245, 34%, 68%)
Darker companion
Amethyst Radiant Soft
#6862B2 · hsl(245, 34%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Citrine Tone Soft
#BCBC76 · hsl(60, 34%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Plum Tone Soft
#9976BC · hsl(270, 34%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Cobalt Tone Soft
#768DBC · hsl(220, 34%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Scarlet Tone Soft
#BC7C76 · hsl(5, 34%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Emerald Tone Soft
#76BC76 · hsl(120, 34%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Coral Tone Soft
#BC9976 · hsl(30, 34%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Lime Tone Soft
#99BC76 · hsl(90, 34%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Amethyst Tone Soft #7C76BC
Lighter companion: Amethyst Silk Soft #9692C9
Darker companion: Amethyst Radiant Soft #6862B2
Complementary counterpoint: Citrine Tone Soft #BCBC76
Analogous lead: Plum Tone Soft #9976BC
Analogous echo: Cobalt Tone Soft #768DBC
Triadic +120°: Scarlet Tone Soft #BC7C76
Triadic +240°: Emerald Tone Soft #76BC76
Split-comp +150°: Coral Tone Soft #BC9976
Split-comp +210°: Lime Tone Soft #99BC76

Compare

See how Amethyst Tone Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsAmethyst Silk SoftvsAmethyst Radiant SoftvsCitrine Tone SoftvsPlum Tone SoftvsCobalt Tone SoftvsScarlet Tone Soft

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Amethyst Tone Dust
#837EB4 · hsl(245, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Amethyst Radiant Soft
#6862B2 · hsl(245, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Iris Tone Soft
#7676BC · hsl(240, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Violet Tone Soft
#8276BC · hsl(250, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Amethyst Silk Soft
#9692C9 · hsl(245, 34%, 68%)
Nearby match
Amethyst Tone Muted
#8A87AB · hsl(245, 18%, 60%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AA4.5:1
Indigo Ink Bright
#061042
AA4.5:1
Indigo Ink Pure
#030E45
AA4.5:1
Orchid Ink Vivid
#1B093E
AA4.5:1
Orchid Ink Bright
#1A0642
AA4.5:1
Orchid Ink Pure
#190345
AA4.5:1
Iris Ink Clear
#101037

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#7A7AAB
Protanopia
#7979AE
Tritanopia
#7CA2A0
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