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Replete Berry

#a8408e
Notes

Replete Berry (#A8408E) 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°, 45%, 45%) 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
#a8408e
RGB
rgb(168, 64, 142)
HSL
hsl(315, 45%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(315 25% 34%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.0% 0.164 338.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6107 0.2774 0.5437)
HSV
hsv(315, 62%, 66%)
LAB
lab(44.16% 51.67 -22.05)
LCH
lch(44.16% 56.18 336.89)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 62%, 15%, 34%)

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.

Berry
noun

A general-purpose color name for the deep blue-purple of Vaccinium blueberries, Sambucus elderberries, and the Aronia black-chokeberries that mark hedgerows in autumn. The color refers to a ripe wild blueberry's bloom-coated skin: a deep, slightly violet-shifted blue with the powdery finish of waxy fruit. Cooler than wine, warmer than indigo, with the foraged-fruit specificity of a word that covers half-a-dozen species.

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.

#a8408e
Original
#445e90
Protanopia
#646e8b
Deuteranopia
#b14361
Tritanopia
#5c5c5c
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
5.54:1
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
3.79:1

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
##A8408E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6107 0.2774 0.5437)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.164

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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