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Resilient Brindisi

#b2329e
Notes

Resilient Brindisi (#B2329E) is a true violet 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 (309°, 56%, 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
#b2329e
RGB
rgb(178, 50, 158)
HSL
hsl(309, 56%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(309 20% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.8% 0.200 335.0)
HSV
hsv(309, 72%, 70%)
LAB
lab(44.54% 62.25 -30.95)
LCH
lch(44.54% 69.52 333.57)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 72%, 11%, 30%)

Etymology

Resilient
adjective

Latin resiliēns, springing-back — present-participle of resilīre. As a color modifier, resilient implies a saturated-and-recovering-and-flexible quality where the hue maintains its strength under visual pressure. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to tough and hardy in usage.

Brindisi
noun

Italian Adriatic port city — once the Roman Brundisium, terminus of the Via Appia, and a major Phoenician-and-Roman purpura shellfish-dye production center. Brindisi color refers to a Brindisi-dyed Roman toga praetexta with its purple-edged border: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the matte finish of multi-bath murex-shellfish dye on multi-rolled woolen toga fabric.

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.

#b2329e
Original
#325da1
Protanopia
#5e709b
Deuteranopia
#bb3c64
Tritanopia
#555555
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
5.46:1
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
3.84:1

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