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Dense Blithe violet

#9a0364
Notes

Dense Blithe violet (#9A0364) 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 (321°, 96%, 31%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#9a0364
RGB
rgb(154, 3, 100)
HSL
hsl(321, 96%, 31%)
HWB
hwb(321 1% 40%)
OKLCH
oklch(45.3% 0.187 350.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5525 0.1098 0.3835)
HSV
hsv(321, 98%, 60%)
LAB
lab(33.68% 59.95 -12.17)
LCH
lch(33.68% 61.18 348.52)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 98%, 35%, 40%)

Etymology

Dense
adjective

Latin dēnsus, thick / crowded — sharing root with English condense. As a color modifier, dense implies a saturated-and-tightly-packed quality where the hue carries maximum pigmentation per visual unit-of-area. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to thick and concentrated in usage.

Blithe
modifier

Old English blīthe, joyful-and-kind. As a color modifier, blithe implies a carefree-and-light-hearted-and-cheerful quality, the visual register of Shakespearean-pastoral-and-Forest-of-Arden-blithe hand-carefree-and-light-hearted-and-cheerful Shakespearean-pastoral-and-Forest-of-Arden-and-As-You-Like-It blithe-and-carefree-and-light-hearted-and-cheerful surfaces under Shakespearean-pastoral-and-Forest-of-Arden-and-As-You-Like-It English-greenwood-and-shepherd's-meadow Maytime-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to merry and jolly in usage.

violet
noun

Viola odorata, the European sweet violet — small, fragrant, and the original meaning of the color name in English (the Violet of the rainbow). The color refers to a fresh sweet violet blossom in late winter: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep blue-purple with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower. Cooler than amethyst, warmer than indigo, with the perfumed weight of a flower used in Roman garlands and Victorian eau de toilette.

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.

#9a0364
Original
#2b3f66
Protanopia
#555861
Deuteranopia
#a60039
Tritanopia
#2a2a2a
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
8.17:1
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
2.57:1

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
##9A0364
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5525 0.1098 0.3835)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.187

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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