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Forceful Susa

#8e1a7e
Notes

Forceful Susa (#8E1A7E) is a deep violet 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 (308°, 69%, 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
#8e1a7e
RGB
rgb(142, 26, 126)
HSL
hsl(308, 69%, 33%)
HWB
hwb(308 10% 44%)
OKLCH
oklch(45.5% 0.182 334.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5109 0.1472 0.4793)
HSV
hsv(308, 82%, 56%)
LAB
lab(33.98% 56.52 -28.41)
LCH
lch(33.98% 63.26 333.31)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 82%, 11%, 44%)

Etymology

Forceful
adjective

Old French force, strength — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, forceful implies a saturated-and-vigorous quality where the hue exerts visual force on its substrate. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to mighty and commanding in tone.

Susa
noun

Persian Achaemenid winter capital — and the imperial court color storehouse for Tyrian purple tribute textiles imported from Phoenician Tyre and Sidon under Darius I (522–486 BCE). Susa color refers to a Susa-stored Achaemenid royal kandys coat: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of multi-bath shellfish-dye on Persian-court silk-and-wool blend.

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.

#8e1a7e
Original
#184581
Protanopia
#46567b
Deuteranopia
#95264c
Tritanopia
#3a3a3a
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
8.08:1
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
2.60:1

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
##8E1A7E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5109 0.1472 0.4793)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.182

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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