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Reposed Lipstick

#7f6377
Notes

Reposed Lipstick (#7F6377) is a true magenta 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 (317°, 12%, 44%) 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 green. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#7f6377
RGB
rgb(127, 99, 119)
HSL
hsl(317, 12%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(317 39% 50%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.4% 0.046 336.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4808 0.3925 0.4621)
HSV
hsv(317, 22%, 50%)
LAB
lab(45.31% 14.88 -6.88)
LCH
lch(45.31% 16.39 335.19)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 22%, 6%, 50%)

Etymology

Reposed
adjective

Latin repōnere, to put back — past-participle of repose. As a color modifier, reposed implies a hushed-and-restful-and-still quality where the hue carries the visual register of pre-modern monastic Cistercian-Cloister meditative-and-still interior-architecture. Sits at the hushed-and-still end of the grid, parallel to restful and contemplative in usage.

Lipstick
noun

Modern cosmetic stick of waxy carmine-and-iron-oxide pigment in vegetable wax base — particularly the deep-magenta MAC Russian Red and Chanel Rouge Allure shades that defined late-20th-century fashion-magazine cover art. Lipstick color refers to a MAC Ruby Woo matte lipstick on a fresh swatched arm: a saturated, slightly cool deep magenta with the matte finish of pigment-loaded vegetable-wax-and-castor-oil base.

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.

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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.

#7f6377
Original
#636978
Protanopia
#6a6d76
Deuteranopia
#82646a
Tritanopia
#6a6a6a
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).
AAon White
5.31:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.95:1

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
##7F6377
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4808 0.3925 0.4621)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.046

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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