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Confident Bagryanyi

#b3346a
Notes

Confident Bagryanyi (#B3346A) 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 (334°, 55%, 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b3346a
RGB
rgb(179, 52, 106)
HSL
hsl(334, 55%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(334 20% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.0% 0.169 358.7)
HSV
hsv(334, 71%, 70%)
LAB
lab(42.89% 55.12 -1.71)
LCH
lch(42.89% 55.14 358.22)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 71%, 41%, 30%)

Etymology

Confident
adjective

A late-Latin participle, confidens, trusting — borrowed into English in the sixteenth century. As a color modifier, confident implies saturation combined with poise: a confident red doesn't try too hard, just sits at the level of its hue without overreaching. Sits in the bold-bucket center near bold and resolute.

Bagryanyi
noun

The Russian word for deep crimson — used in Old Slavonic religious texts for the robes of saints and in modern Russian poetry for the autumn foliage. The color refers to bagryanyi-dyed Russian wool: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the matte finish of plant-dye-on-felt. Deeper than crimson, cooler than burgundy.

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.

#b3346a
Original
#4e566b
Protanopia
#706e67
Deuteranopia
#c2244b
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
5.81:1
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
3.62:1

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