Maritime

#bdcfea

Sea-cooled periwinkle lavender for maritime interface headers

Save
Share

About Maritime

Maritime looks like a pale periwinkle-blue wash that's been gently dragged toward lavender, not icy and not powdery. Compared with and , it keeps a clearer purple signal instead of drifting more fully into that misty, bluish air. It's also a touch more balanced than Fly a Kite: less playful at the edges, more like a calm shoreline tone.

I reach for Maritime when I need light panels that feel clean in skincare, dermatology, and health apps without turning periwinkle-cool. It's great behind onboarding steps, quiet section headers, and modal backplates where you want "soft but specific" rather than foggy. Pair it with cool creams and white type blocks so the background reads warmer than pure white but still clearly purple-family, not blue-gray.

One quirk: if you sit it next to the more airy , Maritime can look slightly more assertive. Dial surrounding neutrals a little warmer and it behaves.

Gradient preview

See how this color looks in an animated mesh gradient.

Conversions

Click any value to copy.

Need this programmatically? Color API

Code snippets

Copy this color into your project.

Contrast checker

WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

Aa
1.58:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

Aa
1.45:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

Aa
11.20:1AAA

On Black #000000

Aa
13.28:1AAA

Variations

Shades

Darker variations, created by mixing toward black.

Tints

Lighter variations, created by mixing toward white.

Tones

Muted variations, created by reducing saturation.

Hues

Hue rotations around the color wheel.

Temperatures

Warm and cool shifts of this color.

Color harmonies

Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split Complementary
Tetradic

Suggested palettes

Palettes built around this color.

4 colors
3 colors
4 colors
4 colors

Community palettes

Published palettes that include this color.

Similar colors

Create a gradient with Maritime

Open the generator with this color pre-loaded.

Start creating