Awakening Burgundy
Awakening Burgundy (#F577B4) is a soft magenta 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 (331°, 86%, 71%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light 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.
Etymology
Old English āwacnian, to awaken — present-participle of awaken. As a color modifier, awakening implies a saturated-and-rousing-and-fresh quality, the bright color of spring-dawn and first-light atmospheric-stimulation. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to quickening and rousing in usage.
Named for the wine region of east-central France — specifically the Pinot Noir of the Côte de Nuits, aged in oak. The color is a deep, slightly brownish red, darker than wine and softer than maroon, with the dusty surface a young Burgundy develops on the rim of a glass. Adopted into English fashion vocabulary in the late nineteenth century and never displaced.
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.