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Untroubled Bermellón

#7b444b
Notes

Untroubled Bermellón (#7B444B) is a true red 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 (352°, 29%, 37%) places it in the muted band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#7b444b
RGB
rgb(123, 68, 75)
HSL
hsl(352, 29%, 37%)
HWB
hwb(352 27% 52%)
OKLCH
oklch(45.5% 0.076 12.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4531 0.2772 0.2967)
HSV
hsv(352, 45%, 48%)
LAB
lab(35.70% 24.49 6.23)
LCH
lch(35.70% 25.27 14.27)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 45%, 39%, 52%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Bermellón
noun

Spanish for vermillion — the cinnabar-derived pigment used in the painted altarpieces of Castilian and Andalusian baroque. The color refers to a freshly mixed bermellón in a Sevillian polychrome workshop: a saturated, slightly orange red with the high gloss of pigment in oil. The Spanish equivalent of shu — different language, same mineral.

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.

#7b444b
Original
#4e4d4b
Protanopia
#5c584a
Deuteranopia
#843e47
Tritanopia
#505050
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
7.58:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.77:1

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
##7B444B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4531 0.2772 0.2967)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.076

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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