Foreboding Ámbar
Foreboding Ámbar (#594105) is a deep amber with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (43°, 89%, 18%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Old English fore-bēodan, to announce in advance — present-participle of forebode. As a color modifier, foreboding implies a deep-and-threatening atmospheric-anticipation quality, the dark cool-gray of advancing-cyclone storm-front cumulonimbus-base. Sits at the deep-and-threatening end of the grid, parallel to ominous and menacing in atmospheric tone.
The Spanish word for amber — borrowed from the Arabic anbar via medieval Iberian contact. Ámbar names both the fossilized resin and the warm gold-orange color in Iberian poetry and fashion. The color refers to polished Dominican amber: a warm, slightly translucent gold-orange with the resinous depth of Caribbean fossil resin. The Spanish cousin of amber.
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.