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Bountiful Mûre

#6b2f7a
Notes

Bountiful Mûre (#6B2F7A) 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 (288°, 44%, 33%) 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
#6b2f7a
RGB
rgb(107, 47, 122)
HSL
hsl(288, 44%, 33%)
HWB
hwb(288 18% 52%)
OKLCH
oklch(42.0% 0.134 319.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3900 0.1976 0.4635)
HSV
hsv(288, 61%, 48%)
LAB
lab(30.79% 38.92 -31.31)
LCH
lch(30.79% 49.95 321.18)
CMYK
cmyk(12%, 61%, 0%, 52%)

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.

Mûre
noun

French for blackberry / mulberry (Rubus fruticosus / Morus nigra) — the deep-violet aggregate-drupe of European hedgerows and Morus tree-fruit, both important anthocyanin-rich autumn fruits. Mûre color refers to a freshly picked Rubus fruticosus aggregate-drupe in a Berry hedgerow: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich aggregate-drupelet cluster on hand-collected fruit.

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.

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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.

#6b2f7a
Original
#1d447c
Protanopia
#344b78
Deuteranopia
#6b3b50
Tritanopia
#414141
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
9.08:1
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
2.31:1

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
##6B2F7A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3900 0.1976 0.4635)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.134

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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