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Plentiful Taro

#75117c
Notes

Plentiful Taro (#75117C) is a deep violet 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 (296°, 76%, 28%) 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.

HEX
#75117c
RGB
rgb(117, 17, 124)
HSL
hsl(296, 76%, 28%)
HWB
hwb(296 7% 51%)
OKLCH
oklch(40.7% 0.176 325.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4200 0.1081 0.4696)
HSV
hsv(296, 86%, 49%)
LAB
lab(28.48% 53.21 -36.16)
LCH
lch(28.48% 64.34 325.80)
CMYK
cmyk(6%, 86%, 0%, 51%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Taro
noun

Asian-Pacific Colocasia esculenta — a tropical Araceae root crop cultivated for its starchy corm, with deep-violet purple-flesh cultivars (the bun long and Lehua maoli taro) used for poi and ube-style purple desserts. Taro color refers to a freshly cut Colocasia esculenta purple-flesh corm: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich starchy taro-pulp. The Polynesian name taro spread to English.

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.

#75117c
Original
#003c7f
Protanopia
#2b477a
Deuteranopia
#782849
Tritanopia
#2e2e2e
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
9.87:1
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
2.13:1

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
##75117C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4200 0.1081 0.4696)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.176

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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