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Unyielding Galah

#a73591
Notes

Unyielding Galah (#A73591) 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 (312°, 52%, 43%) 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
#a73591
RGB
rgb(167, 53, 145)
HSL
hsl(312, 52%, 43%)
HWB
hwb(312 21% 35%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.8% 0.181 336.5)
HSV
hsv(312, 68%, 65%)
LAB
lab(42.47% 56.44 -26.49)
LCH
lch(42.47% 62.35 334.86)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 68%, 13%, 35%)

Etymology

Unyielding
adjective

Old English un- (negation) plus gildan (to give-up). As a color modifier, unyielding implies a saturated-and-uncompromising quality where the hue refuses to fade-or-shift under any visual pressure. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to indomitable and adamant 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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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.

#a73591
Original
#375994
Protanopia
#5c6b8e
Deuteranopia
#b03c5e
Tritanopia
#545454
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
5.90:1
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
3.56:1

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