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Symmetrical Gulābi

#b0759b
Notes

Symmetrical Gulābi (#B0759B) is a true magenta with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (321°, 27%, 57%) places it in the muted 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
#b0759b
RGB
rgb(176, 117, 155)
HSL
hsl(321, 27%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(321 46% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.6% 0.090 341.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6566 0.4689 0.6002)
HSV
hsv(321, 34%, 69%)
LAB
lab(56.41% 29.02 -10.99)
LCH
lch(56.41% 31.03 339.26)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 34%, 12%, 31%)

Etymology

Symmetrical
adjective

Greek symmetría, due-proportion — adjectival suffix -al, derived from sym-metron (with-measure). As a color modifier, symmetrical implies a clear-and-balanced-and-mirrored quality where the hue carries the visual register of bilateral-or-radial proportional symmetry. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to balanced and aligned in usage.

Gulābi
noun

Hindi/Urdu गुलाबी / گُلابی, rose-pink — derived from Persian gul (flower) via gulāb (rose-water), the Indian color tradition for the saturated pink-magenta of Damask rose petals and the iconic Jaipur Pink City stucco. Gulābi color refers to a Jaipur old-city stucco-painted façade in late-afternoon light: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of lime-and-iron-oxide stucco.

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.

#b0759b
Original
#78829c
Protanopia
#868b99
Deuteranopia
#b77682
Tritanopia
#848484
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).
AA Largeon White
3.58:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
5.86:1

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
##B0759B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6566 0.4689 0.6002)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.090

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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