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Iris Silk Pure
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Iris Silk Pure

Blue · Hue 240
Metrics
S 92% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white4.5:1AAon black4.6:1AA
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About this color

Iris Silk Pure (#6262F8) belongs to the blue family — hue 240°, 92% 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-iris-silk-pure: #6262F8;
  --colorarchive-iris-silk-pure-hsl: hsl(240, 92%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-iris-silk-pure-rgb: rgb(98, 98, 248);
}

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 #6262F8.

  • Stripeprimary
    Stripe Indigo · #635BFF
    →
  • Discordprimary
    Blurple · #5865F2
    →
  • Linearprimary
    Linear Indigo · #5E6AD2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #6262F8.

  • MoroccoMajorelle Blue
    #6050DC · Jacques Majorelle's Marrakech garden, 1937
    →
  • MexicoTalavera Blue
    #2A52BE · Talavera Poblana tin-glazed pottery
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Obangsaek Blue (청 / cheong)
    #1E68C1 · East — wood element, hanbok dyes
    →

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
Iris Bloom Pure
#8989FA · hsl(240, 92%, 76%)
Darker companion
Iris Tone Pure
#3B3BF7 · hsl(240, 92%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Citrine Silk Pure
#F8F862 · hsl(60, 92%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Orchid Silk Pure
#9462F8 · hsl(260, 92%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Cobalt Silk Pure
#6294F8 · hsl(220, 92%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Crimson Silk Pure
#F86262 · hsl(0, 92%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Emerald Silk Pure
#62F862 · hsl(120, 92%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Coral Silk Pure
#F8AD62 · hsl(30, 92%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Lime Silk Pure
#ADF862 · hsl(90, 92%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Iris Silk Pure #6262F8
Lighter companion: Iris Bloom Pure #8989FA
Darker companion: Iris Tone Pure #3B3BF7
Complementary counterpoint: Citrine Silk Pure #F8F862
Analogous lead: Orchid Silk Pure #9462F8
Analogous echo: Cobalt Silk Pure #6294F8
Triadic +120°: Crimson Silk Pure #F86262
Triadic +240°: Emerald Silk Pure #62F862
Split-comp +150°: Coral Silk Pure #F8AD62
Split-comp +210°: Lime Silk Pure #ADF862

Compare

See how Iris Silk Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsIris Bloom PurevsIris Tone PurevsCitrine Silk PurevsOrchid Silk PurevsCobalt Silk PurevsCrimson Silk Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Iris Silk Bright
#6969F2 · hsl(240, 84%, 68%)
Nearby match
Amethyst Silk Pure
#6F62F8 · hsl(245, 92%, 68%)
Nearby match
Iris Tone Pure
#3B3BF7 · hsl(240, 92%, 60%)
Nearby match
Iris Bloom Pure
#8989FA · hsl(240, 92%, 76%)
Nearby match
Iris Silk Vivid
#7171EA · hsl(240, 74%, 68%)
Nearby match
Amethyst Silk Bright
#7469F2 · hsl(245, 84%, 68%)

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
Citrine Veil Clear
#FDFDF7
AA4.5:1
Citrine Veil Vivid
#FEFEF6
AA4.5:1
Citrine Veil Bright
#FEFEF6
AA4.5:1
Citrine Veil Pure
#FFFFF5
AA4.5:1
Canary Veil Vivid
#FEFDF6
AA4.5:1
Canary Veil Bright
#FEFDF6

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#6262D9
Protanopia
#6262DF
Tritanopia
#62C9C4
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Iris Silk Faint#A5A5B6 · hsl(240, 10%, 68%)Iris Silk Muted#9F9FBC · hsl(240, 18%, 68%)Iris Silk Dust#9898C3 · hsl(240, 26%, 68%)Iris Silk Soft#9292C9 · hsl(240, 34%, 68%)Iris Silk Clear#8181D9 · hsl(240, 54%, 68%)Iris Silk Vivid#7171EA · hsl(240, 74%, 68%)Iris Silk Bright#6969F2 · hsl(240, 84%, 68%)Iris Silk Pure#6262F8 · hsl(240, 92%, 68%)
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