Homespun Bonechar
Homespun Bonechar (#160C1E) is a deep indigo with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (273°, 43%, 8%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
English compound home + past-participle spun — sharing root with spin. As a color modifier, homespun implies a neutral-and-cottage-industry-and-traditional quality, the neutral color of Welsh-and-Scottish-Highland hand-spun-and-hand-woven cottage-industry-and-traditional-craft textile-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to folksy and homey in usage.
Bone-black pigment produced by the dry-distillation of animal bones in an oxygen-free retort — the deepest blue-black of the carbon-black pigment family, used as the Frankfurt black of Dutch Golden-Age oil painting. Bonechar color refers to a bone-black-thinned oil glaze in a Rembrandt 1660s Self Portrait: a saturated, slightly cool deep black with the matte finish of bone-char-and-poppy-oil glaze on aged linen canvas.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.