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Bountiful Tatra

#c453d9
Notes

Bountiful Tatra (#C453D9) is a true violet with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (291°, 64%, 59%) 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
#c453d9
RGB
rgb(196, 83, 217)
HSL
hsl(291, 64%, 59%)
HWB
hwb(291 33% 15%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.9% 0.215 321.1)
HSV
hsv(291, 62%, 85%)
LAB
lab(55.00% 63.52 -48.56)
LCH
lch(55.00% 79.96 322.60)
CMYK
cmyk(10%, 62%, 0%, 15%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Tatra
noun

Carpathian high-mountain range straddling Poland and Slovakia — its alpine tatran peaks above 2,000m support some of Europe's last Soldanella alpina and Gentiana clusii deep-violet alpine flora. Tatra color refers to a Soldanella alpina corolla on a High Tatras alpine ledge: a saturated, slightly cool deep violet with the velvet finish of fresh alpine snowbell petal under high-altitude light.

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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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.

#c453d9
Original
#337cdd
Protanopia
#6188d6
Deuteranopia
#c6688f
Tritanopia
#757575
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).
AA Largeon White
3.76:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
5.59:1

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