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Tomblike Erdbeere

#6d194f
Notes

Tomblike Erdbeere (#6D194F) 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 (321°, 63%, 26%) 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
#6d194f
RGB
rgb(109, 25, 79)
HSL
hsl(321, 63%, 26%)
HWB
hwb(321 10% 57%)
OKLCH
oklch(37.3% 0.130 345.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3923 0.1257 0.3025)
HSV
hsv(321, 77%, 43%)
LAB
lab(25.30% 41.72 -12.01)
LCH
lch(25.30% 43.42 343.94)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 77%, 28%, 57%)

Etymology

Tomblike
adjective

Greek tymbos, tomb — adjectival suffix -like. As a color modifier, tomblike implies the deep-and-funereal-and-sepulchral quality of Etruscan-and-Egyptian rock-cut royal-tomb interiors, particularly the Valley-of-the-Kings and Cerveteri-necropolis hand-carved chamber-painting walls. Sits at the deep-and-funereal end of the grid, parallel to sepulchral and crypted.

Erdbeere
noun

German for strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) — particularly the deep-magenta Hanseatic harvest strawberry of Schleswig-Holstein and Niederrhein river-meadows, the iconic summer-fruit base of Erdbeerkuchen. Erdbeere color refers to a freshly hulled Fragaria × ananassa aggregate-fruit cross-section in a Hamburg market stall: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich strawberry-flesh against pale yellow-green achenes.

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.

#6d194f
Original
#243350
Protanopia
#3d414d
Deuteranopia
#751731
Tritanopia
#2f2f2f
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
11.04:1
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
1.90:1

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
##6D194F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3923 0.1257 0.3025)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.130

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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