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Abundant Echinacea

#b93996
Notes

Abundant Echinacea (#B93996) 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 (316°, 53%, 47%) 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
#b93996
RGB
rgb(185, 57, 150)
HSL
hsl(316, 53%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(316 22% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.2% 0.191 340.7)
HSV
hsv(316, 69%, 73%)
LAB
lab(46.24% 60.32 -23.42)
LCH
lch(46.24% 64.71 338.78)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 69%, 19%, 27%)

Etymology

Abundant
adjective

Latin abundāre, to overflow — present-participle of abound. As a color modifier, abundant implies a saturated-and-plentiful quality where the hue carries surplus visual richness beyond minimum requirement. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to plentiful and bountiful.

Echinacea
noun

North American purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) — a midwestern-prairie Asteraceae perennial with deep-magenta drooping ray-flowers and a prominent rust-orange disk-cone center. Echinacea color refers to a fully opened Echinacea purpurea ray-flower in late-summer light: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh drooping ray-flowers. The Greek genus name echínos (hedgehog) refers to the prickly disk.

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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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.

#b93996
Original
#426099
Protanopia
#6a7593
Deuteranopia
#c43c62
Tritanopia
#5b5b5b
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
5.14:1
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
4.09:1

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