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Glistening Pourpre

#fe7962
Notes

Glistening Pourpre (#FE7962) is a true red 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 (9°, 99%, 69%) 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
#fe7962
RGB
rgb(254, 121, 98)
HSL
hsl(9, 99%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(9 38% 0%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.8% 0.167 31.5)
HSV
hsv(9, 61%, 100%)
LAB
lab(66.24% 48.93 36.69)
LCH
lch(66.24% 61.16 36.86)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 52%, 61%, 0%)

Etymology

Glistening
adjective

Old English glisnian, to glisten — present-participle of glisten, sharing root with German glitzern. As a color modifier, glistening implies a saturated-and-wet-or-polished-reflective quality, the bright color of fresh-rain-and-polished-silver surface-reflection. Sits at the bright-and-reflective end of the grid, parallel to shimmering and gleaming 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.

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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.

#fe7962
Original
#9b8f5f
Protanopia
#bcac5f
Deuteranopia
#ff6174
Tritanopia
#949494
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
2.58:1
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
8.13:1

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