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Sinewy Tibouchina

#b322b1
Notes

Sinewy Tibouchina (#B322B1) is a true violet with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (301°, 68%, 42%) 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
#b322b1
RGB
rgb(179, 34, 177)
HSL
hsl(301, 68%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(301 13% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.9% 0.230 328.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6450 0.1912 0.6720)
HSV
hsv(301, 81%, 70%)
LAB
lab(44.10% 70.05 -42.94)
LCH
lch(44.10% 82.17 328.49)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 81%, 1%, 30%)

Etymology

Sinewy
adjective

Old English sinu, sinew — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, sinewy implies a saturated-and-muscular-and-firm quality where the hue carries the lean-and-strong visual presence of a Roman-statue athletic figure. Sits at the bold-and-firm end of the grid, parallel to stalwart and rugged in usage.

Tibouchina
noun

South American princess flower (Tibouchina urvilleana) — a Brazilian cerrado native shrub cultivated worldwide for its silver-veined leaves and deep-violet five-petaled flowers. Tibouchina color refers to a fully bloomed Tibouchina urvilleana corolla: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the velvet finish of fresh broad-petaled corolla. The genus name is from the Tupi-Guarani native word for the plant.

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.

#b322b1
Original
#005cb5
Protanopia
#4f6fae
Deuteranopia
#b93b6b
Tritanopia
#4b4b4b
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
5.55:1
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
3.78:1

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
##B322B1
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6450 0.1912 0.6720)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.230

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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