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Bountiful Kunzite

#832c6a
Notes

Bountiful Kunzite (#832C6A) 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 (317°, 50%, 34%) 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
#832c6a
RGB
rgb(131, 44, 106)
HSL
hsl(317, 50%, 34%)
HWB
hwb(317 17% 49%)
OKLCH
oklch(44.3% 0.140 340.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4744 0.1960 0.4057)
HSV
hsv(317, 66%, 51%)
LAB
lab(33.28% 44.28 -17.01)
LCH
lch(33.28% 47.43 338.98)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 66%, 19%, 49%)

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.

Kunzite
noun

Pink variety of the lithium-aluminum silicate spodumene — first described from the San Diego gem-deposits of California in 1902 by George Frederick Kunz. The pink color comes from manganese substitution. Kunzite color refers to a faceted San-Diego-area kunzite: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the glassy finish of manganese-substituted spodumene gem crystal. Pleochroic between deep-pink and pale-violet.

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.

#832c6a
Original
#32456c
Protanopia
#4c5368
Deuteranopia
#8b2e47
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
8.29:1
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
2.53:1

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
##832C6A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4744 0.1960 0.4057)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.140

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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