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Plentiful Mandevilla

#bb3a91
Notes

Plentiful Mandevilla (#BB3A91) 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 (320°, 53%, 48%) 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
#bb3a91
RGB
rgb(187, 58, 145)
HSL
hsl(320, 53%, 48%)
HWB
hwb(320 23% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.4% 0.188 343.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6772 0.2657 0.5558)
HSV
hsv(320, 69%, 73%)
LAB
lab(46.50% 59.78 -19.99)
LCH
lch(46.50% 63.04 341.51)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 69%, 22%, 27%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Mandevilla
noun

South American rocktrumpet (Mandevilla sanderi) — a tropical Apocynaceae twining-vine cultivated worldwide for its trumpet-shaped deep-magenta flowers held above glossy evergreen foliage. Mandevilla color refers to a fully opened Mandevilla sanderi trumpet flower: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the velvet finish of fresh fused-petaled trumpet corolla. Named for Henry Mandeville, English diplomat in Buenos Aires.

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.

#bb3a91
Original
#476193
Protanopia
#6d768e
Deuteranopia
#c73a60
Tritanopia
#5c5c5c
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
5.09:1
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
4.13:1

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
##BB3A91
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6772 0.2657 0.5558)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.188

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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