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Replete Galah

#9e387e
Notes

Replete Galah (#9E387E) 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°, 48%, 42%) 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
#9e387e
RGB
rgb(158, 56, 126)
HSL
hsl(319, 48%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(319 22% 38%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.8% 0.157 342.2)
HSV
hsv(319, 65%, 62%)
LAB
lab(40.58% 49.90 -17.92)
LCH
lch(40.58% 53.02 340.24)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 65%, 20%, 38%)

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.

Galah
noun

Australian Eolophus roseicapilla — a Cacatuidae parrot of the Australian arid zone, whose breeding-plumage adults have a brilliant deep-magenta breast against pale-grey wings. Galah color refers to a Eolophus roseicapilla breast feather field in raking light: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of carotenoid-pigmented feather barbs against the gray melanin-substrate wing-feather background.

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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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.

#9e387e
Original
#405580
Protanopia
#5e667b
Deuteranopia
#a73956
Tritanopia
#535353
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
6.32:1
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
3.32:1

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