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Plentiful Berry

#be4292
Notes

Plentiful Berry (#BE4292) 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 (321°, 49%, 50%) 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
#be4292
RGB
rgb(190, 66, 146)
HSL
hsl(321, 49%, 50%)
HWB
hwb(321 26% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.7% 0.180 344.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6895 0.2929 0.5606)
HSV
hsv(321, 65%, 75%)
LAB
lab(48.16% 57.61 -18.00)
LCH
lch(48.16% 60.35 342.65)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 65%, 23%, 25%)

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.

Berry
noun

A general-purpose color name for the deep blue-purple of Vaccinium blueberries, Sambucus elderberries, and the Aronia black-chokeberries that mark hedgerows in autumn. The color refers to a ripe wild blueberry's bloom-coated skin: a deep, slightly violet-shifted blue with the powdery finish of waxy fruit. Cooler than wine, warmer than indigo, with the foraged-fruit specificity of a word that covers half-a-dozen species.

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.

#be4292
Original
#4e6594
Protanopia
#737a8f
Deuteranopia
#ca4164
Tritanopia
#626262
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
4.79:1
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
4.38:1

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
##BE4292
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6895 0.2929 0.5606)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.180

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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