Weighty Vishnya
Weighty Vishnya (#9D1E81) is a true 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 (313°, 68%, 37%) 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.
Etymology
Old English wegan, to weigh — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, weighty implies a saturated-and-heavy-and-imposing quality where the hue carries visual mass and gravitational presence. Sits at the bold-and-weighty end of the grid, parallel to substantial and hefty in usage.
Russian вишня, sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) — the deep-magenta drupe used in Russian vishnyovy compote, varenye preserve, and the Polish wiśniówka cherry liqueur. Vishnya color refers to a freshly pitted Prunus cerasus drupe in a Russian-folk varenye preserve: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of anthocyanin-rich sour-cherry pulp on a clear-glass preserve jar.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.