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Iris Radiant Dust
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Iris Radiant Dust

Blue · Hue 240
Metrics
S 26% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white4.9:1AAon black4.3:1AA Large
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About this color

Iris Radiant Dust (#6B6BA8) belongs to the blue family — hue 240°, 26% saturation, 54% 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-iris-radiant-dust: #6B6BA8;
  --colorarchive-iris-radiant-dust-hsl: hsl(240, 26%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-iris-radiant-dust-rgb: rgb(107, 107, 168);
}

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 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 #6B6BA8.

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

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #6B6BA8.

  • IrelandAtlantic Slate
    #5A6770 · Cliff face + winter sea
    →
  • France (Paris)Zinc Roof Grey
    #5E6566 · Oxidized zinc roof tiles, central Paris
    →
  • MoroccoMajorelle Blue
    #6050DC · Jacques Majorelle's Marrakech garden, 1937
    →

Color guides

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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
Iris Tone Dust
#7E7EB4 · hsl(240, 26%, 60%)
Darker companion
Iris Core Dust
#5B5B9A · hsl(240, 26%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Citrine Radiant Dust
#A8A86B · hsl(60, 26%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Orchid Radiant Dust
#806BA8 · hsl(260, 26%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Cobalt Radiant Dust
#6B80A8 · hsl(220, 26%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Crimson Radiant Dust
#A86B6B · hsl(0, 26%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Emerald Radiant Dust
#6BA86B · hsl(120, 26%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Coral Radiant Dust
#A88A6B · hsl(30, 26%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Lime Radiant Dust
#8AA86B · hsl(90, 26%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Iris Radiant Dust #6B6BA8
Lighter companion: Iris Tone Dust #7E7EB4
Darker companion: Iris Core Dust #5B5B9A
Complementary counterpoint: Citrine Radiant Dust #A8A86B
Analogous lead: Orchid Radiant Dust #806BA8
Analogous echo: Cobalt Radiant Dust #6B80A8
Triadic +120°: Crimson Radiant Dust #A86B6B
Triadic +240°: Emerald Radiant Dust #6BA86B
Split-comp +150°: Coral Radiant Dust #A88A6B
Split-comp +210°: Lime Radiant Dust #8AA86B

Compare

See how Iris Radiant Dust compares side by side with related colors.

vsIris Tone DustvsIris Core DustvsCitrine Radiant DustvsOrchid Radiant DustvsCobalt Radiant DustvsCrimson Radiant Dust

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Iris Radiant Muted
#75759F · hsl(240, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Iris Radiant Soft
#6262B2 · hsl(240, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Iris Core Dust
#5B5B9A · hsl(240, 26%, 48%)
Nearby match
Iris Tone Dust
#7E7EB4 · hsl(240, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Amethyst Radiant Dust
#706BA8 · hsl(245, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Iris Radiant Faint
#7E7E95 · hsl(240, 10%, 54%)

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
AA4.7:1
Citrine Veil Faint
#FAFAF9
AA4.7:1
Citrine Veil Muted
#FBFBF9
AA4.7:1
Citrine Veil Dust
#FBFBF9
AA4.8:1
Citrine Veil Soft
#FCFCF8
AA4.8:1
Citrine Veil Clear
#FDFDF7
AA4.8:1
Citrine Veil Vivid
#FEFEF6

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#6B6B99
Protanopia
#6B6B9C
Tritanopia
#6B928F
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Iris Radiant Faint#7E7E95 · hsl(240, 10%, 54%)Iris Radiant Muted#75759F · hsl(240, 18%, 54%)Iris Radiant Dust#6B6BA8 · hsl(240, 26%, 54%)Iris Radiant Soft#6262B2 · hsl(240, 34%, 54%)Iris Radiant Clear#4A4AC9 · hsl(240, 54%, 54%)Iris Radiant Vivid#3333E1 · hsl(240, 74%, 54%)Iris Radiant Bright#2727EC · hsl(240, 84%, 54%)Iris Radiant Pure#1E1EF6 · hsl(240, 92%, 54%)
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