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Abundant Malina

#8a1670
Notes

Abundant Malina (#8A1670) 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 (313°, 72%, 31%) 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
#8a1670
RGB
rgb(138, 22, 112)
HSL
hsl(313, 72%, 31%)
HWB
hwb(313 9% 46%)
OKLCH
oklch(43.8% 0.174 339.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4961 0.1343 0.4268)
HSV
hsv(313, 84%, 54%)
LAB
lab(32.14% 54.61 -22.50)
LCH
lch(32.14% 59.06 337.60)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 84%, 19%, 46%)

Etymology

Abundant
adjective

Latin abundāre, to overflow — present-participle of abound. As a color modifier, abundant implies a saturated-and-plentiful quality where the hue carries surplus visual richness beyond minimum requirement. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to plentiful and bountiful.

Malina
noun

Polish and Russian for raspberry (Rubus idaeus) — the deep-magenta aggregate-drupe of European raspberry, the iconic summer-fruit of Polish Wileńskie-region forests. Malina color refers to a freshly picked Rubus idaeus aggregate-drupe-cluster: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich raspberry-flesh on aggregate drupelets. The Slavic root mal- refers to the small individual drupelet structure.

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.

#8a1670
Original
#1f4072
Protanopia
#47526d
Deuteranopia
#921c43
Tritanopia
#353535
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
8.64:1
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
2.43:1

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
##8A1670
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4961 0.1343 0.4268)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.174

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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