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Sapphire Radiant Muted
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Sapphire Radiant Muted

Blue · Hue 210
Metrics
S 18% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.6:1AA Largeon black5.9:1AA
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About this color

Sapphire Radiant Muted (#758A9F) belongs to the blue family — hue 210°, 18% 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-sapphire-radiant-muted: #758A9F;
  --colorarchive-sapphire-radiant-muted-hsl: hsl(210, 18%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-sapphire-radiant-muted-rgb: rgb(117, 138, 159);
}

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 #758A9F.

  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Blue · #6A9BCC
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #758A9F.

  • France (Paris)Seine Steel
    #7E8A93 · River reflectivity in winter
    →
  • AustraliaEucalyptus Blue-Green
    #7EA08C · Eucalyptus regnans / globulus foliage
    →
  • China (Traditional)Jade Green (碧玉)
    #5F9EA0 · Hetian and Burmese jadeite
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using blue and color in design.

Brand & MarketingTechnology Brand Color Design: Trust, Intelligence, and the Blue ProblemColor PsychologyBlue Color Psychology in Branding: Why Every Bank and Tech Giant Chooses BlueColor TheoryHow to Name Colors in Design Systems: Poetic, Semantic, and Token Names

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
Sapphire Tone Muted
#8799AB · hsl(210, 18%, 60%)
Darker companion
Sapphire Core Muted
#647A90 · hsl(210, 18%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Coral Radiant Muted
#9F8A75 · hsl(30, 18%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Indigo Radiant Muted
#757C9F · hsl(230, 18%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Cerulean Radiant Muted
#75989F · hsl(190, 18%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Blush Radiant Muted
#9F758A · hsl(330, 18%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Lime Radiant Muted
#8A9F75 · hsl(90, 18%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Crimson Radiant Muted
#9F7575 · hsl(0, 18%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Citrine Radiant Muted
#9F9F75 · hsl(60, 18%, 54%)
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Base: Sapphire Radiant Muted #758A9F
Lighter companion: Sapphire Tone Muted #8799AB
Darker companion: Sapphire Core Muted #647A90
Complementary counterpoint: Coral Radiant Muted #9F8A75
Analogous lead: Indigo Radiant Muted #757C9F
Analogous echo: Cerulean Radiant Muted #75989F
Triadic +120°: Blush Radiant Muted #9F758A
Triadic +240°: Lime Radiant Muted #8A9F75
Split-comp +150°: Crimson Radiant Muted #9F7575
Split-comp +210°: Citrine Radiant Muted #9F9F75

Compare

See how Sapphire Radiant Muted compares side by side with related colors.

vsSapphire Tone MutedvsSapphire Core MutedvsCoral Radiant MutedvsIndigo Radiant MutedvsCerulean Radiant MutedvsBlush Radiant Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Sapphire Radiant Faint
#7E8A95 · hsl(210, 10%, 54%)
Nearby match
Sapphire Radiant Dust
#6B8AA8 · hsl(210, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Sapphire Core Muted
#647A90 · hsl(210, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Sapphire Tone Muted
#8799AB · hsl(210, 18%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cool Gray Radiant
#838A91 · hsl(210, 6%, 54%)
Nearby match
Steel Radiant Muted
#758D9F · hsl(205, 18%, 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
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Muted
#2A201D
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Dust
#2D1F1A
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Clear
#371A10
AA4.5:1
Vermillion Ink Vivid
#3E1609
AA4.5:1
Ruby Ink Muted
#2A1F1D
AA4.5:1
Ruby Ink Dust
#2D1E1A

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#7D7C99
Protanopia
#7F7F9A
Tritanopia
#769695
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Cool Gray Radiant#838A91 · hsl(210, 6%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Faint#7E8A95 · hsl(210, 10%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Muted#758A9F · hsl(210, 18%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Dust#6B8AA8 · hsl(210, 26%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Soft#628AB2 · hsl(210, 34%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Clear#4A8AC9 · hsl(210, 54%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Vivid#338AE1 · hsl(210, 74%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Bright#278AEC · hsl(210, 84%, 54%)Sapphire Radiant Pure#1E8AF6 · hsl(210, 92%, 54%)
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