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Azure Velvet Faint
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Azure Velvet Faint

Blue · Hue 200
Metrics
S 10% · L 42%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white5.2:1AAon black4:1AA Large
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About this color

Azure Velvet Faint (#606F76) belongs to the blue family — hue 200°, 10% saturation, 42% 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-azure-velvet-faint: #606F76;
  --colorarchive-azure-velvet-faint-hsl: hsl(200, 10%, 42%);
  --colorarchive-azure-velvet-faint-rgb: rgb(96, 111, 118);
}

AI Color Names

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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 one of the hardest colors for nature to make with pigment — and, historically, one of the most expensive to paint with. Ultramarine, ground from lapis lazuli mined in Afghanistan, could cost as much as gold in Renaissance Europe; Vermeer used it lavishly. Egyptian blue (the first synthetic pigment, ~3000 BCE) was lost for centuries and rediscovered in the 19th. Prussian blue (1704) quickly gave painters a cheap alternative to ultramarine; Yves Klein's IKB (1960) re-aristocratized blue.

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 centuries. In Mediterranean traditions blue wards off the evil eye. In America, IBM's blue logo helped earn it the nickname 'Big 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 — in one ten-country survey it led every other color by 8 to 18 points.

In the wild

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook is blue because he is red-green colorblind. Levi's blue is the natural color of indigo on cotton. Twitter Blue (#1DA1F2) defined social-media blue for years before the 2023 rebrand to X scrapped it. 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 tends to recede — the eye focuses blue light slightly in front of the retina, which can make 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 grounded mid-tone — sober, considered, well-suited to body text accents, editorial layouts, or any context where restraint reads as quality.

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

Saturation band: The low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #606F76.

  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Green · #788C5D
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #606F76.

  • IrelandAtlantic Slate
    #5A6770 · Cliff face + winter sea
    →
  • France (Paris)Zinc Roof Grey
    #5E6566 · Oxidized zinc roof tiles, central Paris
    →
  • England (London)Plane Tree Green
    #5C7A5A · Platanus × hispanica, London street tree
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using blue and color in design.

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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
Azure Core Faint
#6E7E87 · hsl(200, 10%, 48%)
Darker companion
Azure Dusk Faint
#4E5A5F · hsl(200, 10%, 34%)
Complementary counterpoint
Ember Velvet Faint
#766860 · hsl(20, 10%, 42%)
Analogous lead
Cobalt Velvet Faint
#606876 · hsl(220, 10%, 42%)
Analogous echo
Cyan Velvet Faint
#607674 · hsl(175, 10%, 42%)
Triadic +120°
Rose Velvet Faint
#76606F · hsl(320, 10%, 42%)
Triadic +240°
Olive Velvet Faint
#6F7660 · hsl(80, 10%, 42%)
Split-comp +150°
Merlot Velvet Faint
#766064 · hsl(350, 10%, 42%)
Split-comp +210°
Amber Velvet Faint
#767260 · hsl(50, 10%, 42%)
Export preview
Base: Azure Velvet Faint #606F76
Lighter companion: Azure Core Faint #6E7E87
Darker companion: Azure Dusk Faint #4E5A5F
Complementary counterpoint: Ember Velvet Faint #766860
Analogous lead: Cobalt Velvet Faint #606876
Analogous echo: Cyan Velvet Faint #607674
Triadic +120°: Rose Velvet Faint #76606F
Triadic +240°: Olive Velvet Faint #6F7660
Split-comp +150°: Merlot Velvet Faint #766064
Split-comp +210°: Amber Velvet Faint #767260

Compare

See how Azure Velvet Faint compares side by side with related colors.

vsAzure Core FaintvsAzure Dusk FaintvsEmber Velvet FaintvsCobalt Velvet FaintvsCyan Velvet FaintvsRose Velvet Faint

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Azure Velvet Muted
#58727E · hsl(200, 18%, 42%)
Nearby match
Azure Core Faint
#6E7E87 · hsl(200, 10%, 48%)
Nearby match
Steel Velvet Faint
#606D76 · hsl(205, 10%, 42%)
Nearby match
Azure Dusk Faint
#4E5A5F · hsl(200, 10%, 34%)
Nearby match
Azure Velvet Dust
#4F7487 · hsl(200, 26%, 42%)
Nearby match
Azure Core Muted
#648290 · hsl(200, 18%, 48%)

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
AA5:1
Ember Veil Faint
#FAFAF9
AA5:1
Ember Veil Muted
#FBFAF9
AA5:1
Ember Veil Dust
#FBF9F9
AA5:1
Ember Veil Soft
#FCF9F8
AA5:1
Ember Veil Clear
#FDF9F7
AA5:1
Ember Veil Vivid
#FEF9F6

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#666574
Protanopia
#676774
Tritanopia
#617373
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Azure Velvet Faint#606F76 · hsl(200, 10%, 42%)Azure Velvet Muted#58727E · hsl(200, 18%, 42%)Azure Velvet Dust#4F7487 · hsl(200, 26%, 42%)Azure Velvet Soft#477790 · hsl(200, 34%, 42%)Azure Velvet Clear#317EA5 · hsl(200, 54%, 42%)Azure Velvet Vivid#1C86BA · hsl(200, 74%, 42%)Azure Velvet Bright#1189C5 · hsl(200, 84%, 42%)Azure Velvet Pure#098CCE · hsl(200, 92%, 42%)
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