Aegean Blue Palette
Whitewashed Santorini walls against impossibly saturated Aegean water — one specific, famous real-world color pairing.
#0F4C81
deep Aegean water
HSL 208° 79% 28%
8.9:1 on white
#1E7FBF
Aegean blue
HSL 204° 73% 43%
4.3:1 on white
#4FA8D8
shallow-water blue
HSL 201° 64% 58%
2.6:1 on white
#FFFFFF
whitewashed wall
HSL 0° 0% 100%
1.0:1 on white
#F0F4F7
sun-bleached white
HSL 206° 30% 96%
1.1:1 on white
Using this palette
Modeled on one of the most photographed color combinations in the world — Cycladic whitewashed architecture against saturated Mediterranean blue — with white and near-white deliberately given equal weight to the blues, since the real scene is genuinely about half architecture, not a blue gradient with white as an afterthought. #0F4C81 and #1E7FBF both clear AA against white for body text. More saturated and specifically Mediterranean than cobalt-and-cream's ceramic-pigment blue or powder-blue-sky's soft everyday sky — suited to travel branding, hospitality, or any context invoking the Greek islands specifically.