Magenta

Where it sits

True Winter palette

Magenta is an anchor color in True Winter. The nearest color on the same side of the warm–cool line is Fuchsia #D0247A, a Bright Winter color, at a distance of 14: close enough to mistake for it on a hanger, far enough to tell apart on a person.

Magenta is a hard color to wear and an easy one to buy, because retailers love it in a lipstick and a scarf and sell it in a shirt about once every three years. When it appears, a True Winter should take it. Nothing else in the palette does what it does, which is make the face look awake without any warmth at all.

The test is the blue. Hold the garment beside a red. If the magenta looks purple by comparison it is cool, and yours. If it looks like a dark coral, it has yellow in it and belongs to Bright Spring, whose warm fuchsia is the equivalent.

On a True Winter it wants black, white, charcoal or true navy beside it, and nothing else. Magenta with another saturated color looks like a flag. Magenta with its own neutrals looks like a decision.

Easily confused with

Fuchsia, #D0247A, is the one it gets swapped with, fourteen points away and shared by True and Bright Winter. Fuchsia is lighter and a touch more purple. Deep Winter is nineteen points off and wears cranberry, the darkened version, instead. Bright Spring's warm fuchsia is the same shout with yellow in it.

The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).

In stock in this color today

As of November 11, 2026, 7 in-stock pieces across Boden, STAUD and Frank & Eileen sample within a close match of #C2185B. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.

Straight Leg Ponte Pants

Pomegranate

$130 at Boden

Tie Waist Ponte Dress

Beetroot Red

$149 at Boden

High Rise Cord Slim Jeans

Holly Berry

$140 at Boden

Vega Dress

Amethyst Holly

$495 at STAUD

Jameson Skirt

Zinnia

$268 at Frank & Eileen

Maxi Phare Dress

Cherry

$270 at STAUD

Supersoft V-neck T-shirt

Beet Red

$45 at Boden

What it's sold as

Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #C2185B today, so they are the words to search for.

Boden

Pomegranate, Beetroot Red, Holly Berry, Beet Red

STAUD

Amethyst Holly, Cherry

Frank & Eileen

Zinnia

A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.

Questions

The True Winter guide · All in-stock True Winter pieces · ← Emerald · Sapphire → · All colors