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Outdoor Magla

#585043
Notes

Outdoor Magla (#585043) is a deep amber 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 (37°, 14%, 30%) places it in the muted 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#585043
RGB
rgb(88, 80, 67)
HSL
hsl(37, 14%, 30%)
HWB
hwb(37 26% 65%)
OKLCH
oklch(43.5% 0.023 79.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3398 0.3148 0.2685)
HSV
hsv(37, 24%, 35%)
LAB
lab(34.43% 0.89 8.87)
LCH
lch(34.43% 8.92 84.30)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 9%, 24%, 65%)

Etymology

Outdoor
adjective

English compound out + door — sharing root with German außerhalb. As a color modifier, outdoor implies a neutral-and-natural-and-weather-exposed quality, the neutral color of L-L-Bean-and-Patagonia outdoor-clothing weather-exposed-and-utilitarian outdoor-and-camping textile-finish surface. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to natural and weathered in usage.

Magla
noun

Polish/Russian/Slavic mgła / magla, fog / mist — adopted into Polish-and-Russian color terminology for the cool-pale-gray of mglisto (foggy) Slavic-coastal weather conditions. Magla color refers to a Gdańsk-coast Baltic-Sea morning fog over a Gdańsk-Bay fishing-pier: a balanced cool gray with the optical complexity of low-altitude humidity-saturated atmospheric scattering against the pier-and-Baltic-shore landscape.

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.

#585043
Original
#545042
Protanopia
#565243
Deuteranopia
#5c4e4c
Tritanopia
#515151
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).
AAAon White
7.94:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.64:1

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
##585043
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3398 0.3148 0.2685)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.023

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.

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