Adamant Strawberry
Adamant Strawberry (#E24792) is a true magenta with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (331°, 73%, 58%) 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.
Etymology
Greek adámas, unconquerable — derived from a- (not) plus damnan (to subdue). As a color modifier, adamant implies a saturated-and-rock-hard quality where the hue maintains diamond-hard pigmentation. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to indomitable and ironclad in usage.
Fragaria × ananassa, the cultivated strawberry of European gardens since the eighteenth century. The color refers to the surface of a ripe berry: a clean, bright red with a slight blue shift in the shadows of the achenes. Warmer than ruby, lighter than crimson, with the optical brightness of fresh fruit rather than the depth of pigment or gem.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.