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Spotlit Pourpre

#fa504c
Notes

Spotlit Pourpre (#FA504C) is a true red with a neon character. It sits at the high-saturation edge of its family. Use it sparingly, as signage, accent, or highlight against darker surfaces. Its HSL profile (1°, 95%, 64%) 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#fa504c
RGB
rgb(250, 80, 76)
HSL
hsl(1, 95%, 64%)
HWB
hwb(1 30% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(66.8% 0.207 25.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9066 0.3644 0.3281)
HSV
hsv(1, 70%, 98%)
LAB
lab(58.59% 64.10 39.37)
LCH
lch(58.59% 75.23 31.56)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 68%, 70%, 2%)

Etymology

Spotlit
adjective

English compound spot + lit — past-participle of spotlight. As a color modifier, spotlit implies a saturated-and-narrow-beam-illuminated quality, the bright color of theatrical-stage-and-museum-display directed-spotlight focused-beam illumination. Sits at the bright-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to sunlit and brilliant in usage.

Pourpre
noun

French for purple in its classical sense — the deep red-purple of Tyrian dye and the pourpre cardinalice of medieval French ecclesiastical dress. The color refers to a pourpre-dyed French silk: a saturated, slightly cool deep red-purple with the satin finish of plant-and-shell dye. The French cousin of porpora.

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.

#fa504c
Original
#80764a
Protanopia
#aa9a47
Deuteranopia
#ff1a51
Tritanopia
#747474
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
3.32:1
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
6.32:1

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
##FA504C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9066 0.3644 0.3281)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.207

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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