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Indigo Silk Bright
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Indigo Silk Bright

Blue · Hue 230
Metrics
S 84% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.5:1AA Largeon black6:1AA
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About this color

Indigo Silk Bright (#6980F2) belongs to the blue family — hue 230°, 84% saturation, 68% 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-indigo-silk-bright: #6980F2;
  --colorarchive-indigo-silk-bright-hsl: hsl(230, 84%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-indigo-silk-bright-rgb: rgb(105, 128, 242);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

SereneTrustworthyClean
Common in

Social Media · Cloud Storage · Baby Products

Pairs well with

Light gray for tech minimalism, peach for friendly warmth

Design tip

The default choice for tech and social platforms for good reason. Light blue backgrounds reduce anxiety and increase trust.

Cultural context ▶

Light blue represents peace, sky, and openness. It's the most universally liked color, making it safe for global brands.

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 vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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: At this saturation the color is doing work. It reads as a brand statement, a sport accessory, or a UI signal. It should be used in small, deliberate doses against quieter neighbors; large fields at this saturation will exhaust the eye.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #6980F2.

  • Redditsecondary
    Periwinkle · #7193FF
    →
  • Linearprimary
    Linear Indigo · #5E6AD2
    →
  • Googleprimary
    Google Blue · #4285F4
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #6980F2.

  • France (Paris)Seine Steel
    #7E8A93 · River reflectivity in winter
    →
  • China (Traditional)Jade Green (碧玉)
    #5F9EA0 · Hetian and Burmese jadeite
    →
  • MoroccoMajorelle Blue
    #6050DC · Jacques Majorelle's Marrakech garden, 1937
    →

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
Indigo Bloom Bright
#8EA0F5 · hsl(230, 84%, 76%)
Darker companion
Indigo Tone Bright
#4360EF · hsl(230, 84%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Amber Silk Bright
#F2DB69 · hsl(50, 84%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Violet Silk Bright
#8069F2 · hsl(250, 84%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Steel Silk Bright
#69B9F2 · hsl(205, 84%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Merlot Silk Bright
#F26980 · hsl(350, 84%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Leaf Silk Bright
#80F269 · hsl(110, 84%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Ember Silk Bright
#F29769 · hsl(20, 84%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Olive Silk Bright
#C4F269 · hsl(80, 84%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Indigo Silk Bright #6980F2
Lighter companion: Indigo Bloom Bright #8EA0F5
Darker companion: Indigo Tone Bright #4360EF
Complementary counterpoint: Amber Silk Bright #F2DB69
Analogous lead: Violet Silk Bright #8069F2
Analogous echo: Steel Silk Bright #69B9F2
Triadic +120°: Merlot Silk Bright #F26980
Triadic +240°: Leaf Silk Bright #80F269
Split-comp +150°: Ember Silk Bright #F29769
Split-comp +210°: Olive Silk Bright #C4F269

Compare

See how Indigo Silk Bright compares side by side with related colors.

vsIndigo Bloom BrightvsIndigo Tone BrightvsAmber Silk BrightvsViolet Silk BrightvsSteel Silk BrightvsMerlot Silk Bright

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Indigo Silk Pure
#627BF8 · hsl(230, 92%, 68%)
Nearby match
Indigo Silk Vivid
#7185EA · hsl(230, 74%, 68%)
Nearby match
Indigo Tone Bright
#4360EF · hsl(230, 84%, 60%)
Nearby match
Indigo Bloom Bright
#8EA0F5 · hsl(230, 84%, 76%)
Nearby match
Indigo Tone Pure
#3B5AF7 · hsl(230, 92%, 60%)
Nearby match
Indigo Bloom Pure
#899CFA · hsl(230, 92%, 76%)

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
Vermillion Ink Faint
#272220
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Muted
#2A201D
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Dust
#2D1F1A
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Soft
#301E18
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Clear
#371A10
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Vivid
#3E1609

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#7271D8
Protanopia
#7474DD
Tritanopia
#6ACBC7
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Indigo Silk Faint#A5A8B6 · hsl(230, 10%, 68%)Indigo Silk Muted#9FA4BC · hsl(230, 18%, 68%)Indigo Silk Dust#989FC3 · hsl(230, 26%, 68%)Indigo Silk Soft#929BC9 · hsl(230, 34%, 68%)Indigo Silk Clear#8190D9 · hsl(230, 54%, 68%)Indigo Silk Vivid#7185EA · hsl(230, 74%, 68%)Indigo Silk Bright#6980F2 · hsl(230, 84%, 68%)Indigo Silk Pure#627BF8 · hsl(230, 92%, 68%)
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