Thunderous Kompot
Thunderous Kompot (#7A125F) 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 (316°, 74%, 27%) 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.
Etymology
Old English thunor, thunder — adjectival suffix -ous, sharing root with German Donner and Old Norse Þórr (Thor). As a color modifier, thunderous implies a deep-and-rumbling-and-imposing-cool quality, the dark cool-gray of cumulonimbus-tower-base storm-cloud directly overhead. Sits at the deep-and-turbulent end of the grid, parallel to stormy with auditory-resonance overtone.
Polish-Russian-Ukrainian kompot — a fruit-based clear-broth drink made from cooked stone-fruit, currants, raspberries, and sour cherries in a deep-magenta liquor. Kompot color refers to a freshly cooled bowl of Polish-Catholic-Lent kompot with floating stone-fruit halves: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich mixed-fruit broth in a clear-glass jar.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.