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Plentiful Hatiora

#993280
Notes

Plentiful Hatiora (#993280) 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 (315°, 51%, 40%) 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
#993280
RGB
rgb(153, 50, 128)
HSL
hsl(315, 51%, 40%)
HWB
hwb(315 20% 40%)
OKLCH
oklch(49.5% 0.163 338.8)
HSV
hsv(315, 67%, 60%)
LAB
lab(38.92% 51.32 -21.79)
LCH
lch(38.92% 55.76 337.00)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 67%, 16%, 40%)

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.

Hatiora
noun

Brazilian Easter cactus (Hatiora gaertneri) — a Cactaceae epiphytic cactus native to the southeastern Brazilian Mata Atlântica, with deep-magenta star-shaped flowers that bloom in spring around Easter. Hatiora color refers to a fully opened Hatiora gaertneri terminal flower in spring: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh radially symmetrical petaled corolla. Named for Thomas Hariot, Renaissance English natural historian.

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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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.

#993280
Original
#375182
Protanopia
#57627d
Deuteranopia
#a23654
Tritanopia
#4e4e4e
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
6.73:1
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
3.12:1

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