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Jazzed Falun

#f06b99
Notes

Jazzed Falun (#F06B99) is a true magenta with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (339°, 82%, 68%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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.

HEX
#f06b99
RGB
rgb(240, 107, 153)
HSL
hsl(339, 82%, 68%)
HWB
hwb(339 42% 6%)
OKLCH
oklch(70.1% 0.169 0.7)
HSV
hsv(339, 55%, 94%)
LAB
lab(62.80% 55.59 0.56)
LCH
lch(62.80% 55.59 0.58)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 55%, 36%, 6%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Falun
noun

The Swedish copper-mining town that gave its name to Falun-red — the iron-oxide paint produced as a byproduct of copper smelting and used to coat almost every wooden Swedish farmhouse since the seventeenth century. The color refers to a freshly painted Falun-red barn: a saturated, slightly muted deep red-brown with the matte finish of clay-and-iron-oxide paint. Drier than maroon, warmer than burgundy.

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.

#f06b99
Original
#82889a
Protanopia
#a5a196
Deuteranopia
#ff5f7c
Tritanopia
#8b8b8b
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).
Failon White
2.89:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
7.27:1

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