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Wholesome Foulard

#783062
Notes

Wholesome Foulard (#783062) is a deep magenta 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 (318°, 43%, 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
#783062
RGB
rgb(120, 48, 98)
HSL
hsl(318, 43%, 33%)
HWB
hwb(318 19% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(42.7% 0.118 341.1)
HSV
hsv(318, 60%, 47%)
LAB
lab(31.78% 37.75 -14.35)
LCH
lch(31.78% 40.39 339.18)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 60%, 18%, 53%)

Etymology

Wholesome
adjective

An adjectival form of whole — used as a color modifier since the sixteenth century for hues that read as healthy and unadulterated. Wholesome cream, wholesome wheat: moderate saturation combined with the optical impression of a natural origin. Sits at the crisp-bucket alongside genuine.

Foulard
noun

French foulard — a small lightweight square silk neckerchief, particularly the saturated-magenta foulard of Belle Époque French men's fashion (1870–1914). Foulard color refers to a Lyon-woven Belle-Époque silk foulard in a Maison Hermès showroom: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the silk luster of multi-bath synthetic aniline dye on jacquard-figured Lyon silk.

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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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.

#783062
Original
#344364
Protanopia
#494f60
Deuteranopia
#7f3144
Tritanopia
#434343
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
8.76:1
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
2.40:1

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