Burnt Hyacinth
Burnt Hyacinth (#601F5B) is a deep violet with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (305°, 51%, 25%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. 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
The past participle of burn used as a color modifier — most familiar in burnt sienna and burnt umber, the pigments produced by firing raw earth pigments to deepen and warm them. Implies a color that has been reduced and concentrated by heat, with the slight red-orange shift that high-temperature oxidation introduces. Sits in the dark-and-warm corner of the engine's grid.
Hyacinthus orientalis, the bulb cultivated in Persian and Ottoman gardens since at least the eleventh century, named in Greek myth for the youth Hyakinthos accidentally killed by Apollo. The color refers to a fresh purple-blue hyacinth in spring bloom: a saturated, slightly violet-shifted blue with the matte finish of densely packed corollas. Cooler than larkspur, warmer than iris, with the perfumed weight of a flower whose scent fills a greenhouse from doorway to back wall.
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.