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Bountiful Caftan

#892b76
Notes

Bountiful Caftan (#892B76) is a true 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 (312°, 52%, 35%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. 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
#892b76
RGB
rgb(137, 43, 118)
HSL
hsl(312, 52%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(312 17% 46%)
OKLCH
oklch(45.7% 0.154 336.9)
HSV
hsv(312, 69%, 54%)
LAB
lab(34.71% 48.27 -22.31)
LCH
lch(34.71% 53.18 335.20)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 69%, 14%, 46%)

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.

Caftan
noun

Persian قفطان, kaftan — a long, loose-fitting Middle-Eastern and North-African robe of layered silk-and-velvet, often dyed in deep-magenta fuchsine or natural kermes for ceremonial occasions. Caftan color refers to an Ottoman-period 19th-century caftan in the Topkapi Palace harem-wing collection: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of multi-bath natural-and-synthetic dye on jacquard-figured 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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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.

#892b76
Original
#2d4878
Protanopia
#4c5774
Deuteranopia
#90304c
Tritanopia
#444444
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
7.86:1
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
2.67:1

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