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Spotless Mandevilla

#f3acd5
Notes

Spotless Mandevilla (#F3ACD5) is a soft magenta with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (325°, 75%, 81%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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
#f3acd5
RGB
rgb(243, 172, 213)
HSL
hsl(325, 75%, 81%)
HWB
hwb(325 67% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(82.4% 0.098 343.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9115 0.6862 0.8272)
HSV
hsv(325, 29%, 95%)
LAB
lab(78.09% 32.05 -10.29)
LCH
lch(78.09% 33.66 342.20)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 29%, 12%, 5%)

Etymology

Spotless
adjective

Old English spott (spot) plus suffix -less. As a color modifier, spotless implies a clear-and-unmarked quality where the hue carries no contaminating speck or stain. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and unblemished in usage.

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.

#f3acd5
Original
#b0bad7
Protanopia
#c1c5d3
Deuteranopia
#fcacba
Tritanopia
#bebebe
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
1.80:1
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
11.67:1

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
##F3ACD5
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9115 0.6862 0.8272)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.098

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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