Abyssal Pavlova
Abyssal Pavlova (#2D041F) is a deep magenta with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (320°, 84%, 10%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary green. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Greek ábyssos, bottomless — adjectival form of abyss. As a color modifier, abyssal implies a deep, cool, slightly-cool-shifted quality reminiscent of Mariana Trench depths where light-extinction reaches absolute. Sits at the deepest-and-coolest end of the deep grid, parallel to fathomless and warmer than Stygian.
Australian-and-New-Zealand meringue dessert — named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), traditionally topped with deep-magenta passionfruit-and-strawberry coulis. Pavlova color refers to a freshly assembled Pavlova with passionfruit-and-strawberry coulis on white meringue: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich fruit-coulis on baked egg-white meringue.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.
Wide gamut
The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.