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Replete Achimenes

#963277
Notes

Replete Achimenes (#963277) 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 (319°, 50%, 39%) 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
#963277
RGB
rgb(150, 50, 119)
HSL
hsl(319, 50%, 39%)
HWB
hwb(319 20% 41%)
OKLCH
oklch(48.6% 0.154 342.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5435 0.2237 0.4559)
HSV
hsv(319, 67%, 59%)
LAB
lab(38.02% 49.14 -17.64)
LCH
lch(38.02% 52.21 340.26)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 67%, 21%, 41%)

Etymology

Replete
adjective

Latin replētus, filled — past-participle of replēre. As a color modifier, replete implies a saturated-and-fully-pigmented quality where the hue is completely loaded with its source pigment. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to brimming and suffused in usage.

Achimenes
noun

Mexican magic flower (Achimenes longiflora) — a Gesneriaceae tuberous-rhizome perennial native to Central American cloud-forest understory, with deep-magenta tubular flowers that bloom in summer and dormant rhizomes in winter. Achimenes color refers to a fully opened Achimenes longiflora tubular flower: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh fused-petaled tubular corolla. Greek achimenes means winter-tender.

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.

#963277
Original
#3a4f79
Protanopia
#585f75
Deuteranopia
#9f3350
Tritanopia
#4c4c4c
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).
AAon White
6.95:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.02:1

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
##963277
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5435 0.2237 0.4559)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.154

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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