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Bountiful Tatra

#6a2778
Notes

Bountiful Tatra (#6A2778) 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 (290°, 51%, 31%) 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.

HEX
#6a2778
RGB
rgb(106, 39, 120)
HSL
hsl(290, 51%, 31%)
HWB
hwb(290 15% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(40.7% 0.143 320.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3843 0.1696 0.4553)
HSV
hsv(290, 68%, 47%)
LAB
lab(29.09% 42.17 -32.78)
LCH
lch(29.09% 53.41 322.14)
CMYK
cmyk(12%, 68%, 0%, 53%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Tatra
noun

Carpathian high-mountain range straddling Poland and Slovakia — its alpine tatran peaks above 2,000m support some of Europe's last Soldanella alpina and Gentiana clusii deep-violet alpine flora. Tatra color refers to a Soldanella alpina corolla on a High Tatras alpine ledge: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the velvet finish of fresh alpine snowbell petal under high-altitude light.

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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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

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.

#6a2778
Original
#0f407a
Protanopia
#2e4776
Deuteranopia
#6b354c
Tritanopia
#3b3b3b
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

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.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon White
9.66:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.17:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

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.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##6A2778
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3843 0.1696 0.4553)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.143

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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