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Plentiful Kalanchoe

#912965
Notes

Plentiful Kalanchoe (#912965) is a true magenta with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (325°, 56%, 36%) 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#912965
RGB
rgb(145, 41, 101)
HSL
hsl(325, 56%, 36%)
HWB
hwb(325 16% 43%)
OKLCH
oklch(46.0% 0.152 349.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5239 0.1926 0.3885)
HSV
hsv(325, 72%, 57%)
LAB
lab(35.10% 48.87 -10.83)
LCH
lch(35.10% 50.06 347.50)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 72%, 30%, 43%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Kalanchoe
noun

African Madagascar widow's-thrill (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) — a Crassulaceae succulent native to Madagascar whose deep-magenta four-petaled flowers in dense terminal corymbs make it a popular winter-bloomer house plant. Kalanchoe color refers to a fully bloomed Kalanchoe blossfeldiana terminal corymb: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh small four-petaled flowers. The genus name comes from the Chinese kalankoe.

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.

#912965
Original
#384767
Protanopia
#565963
Deuteranopia
#9c2443
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
7.75:1
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
2.71:1

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
##912965
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5239 0.1926 0.3885)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.152

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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