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Bountiful Hatiora

#ab338e
Notes

Bountiful Hatiora (#AB338E) 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°, 54%, 44%) 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
#ab338e
RGB
rgb(171, 51, 142)
HSL
hsl(315, 54%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(315 20% 33%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.1% 0.184 339.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6187 0.2362 0.5426)
HSV
hsv(315, 70%, 67%)
LAB
lab(42.73% 57.79 -24.21)
LCH
lch(42.73% 62.65 337.27)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 70%, 17%, 33%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Hatiora
noun

Brazilian Easter cactus (Hatiora gaertneri) — a Cactaceae epiphytic cactus native to the southeastern Brazilian Mata Atlântica, with deep-magenta star-shaped flowers that bloom in spring around Easter. Hatiora color refers to a fully opened Hatiora gaertneri terminal flower in spring: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh radially symmetrical petaled corolla. Named for Thomas Hariot, Renaissance English natural historian.

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.

#ab338e
Original
#395991
Protanopia
#606c8b
Deuteranopia
#b5375c
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
5.84:1
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
3.60:1

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
##AB338E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6187 0.2362 0.5426)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.184

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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