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Bountiful Peplos Brick

#a63d27
Notes

Bountiful Peplos Brick (#A63D27) is a true red with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (10°, 62%, 40%) places it in the balanced 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#a63d27
RGB
rgb(166, 61, 39)
HSL
hsl(10, 62%, 40%)
HWB
hwb(10 15% 35%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.4% 0.143 33.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6029 0.2666 0.1841)
HSV
hsv(10, 77%, 65%)
LAB
lab(40.56% 42.06 35.66)
LCH
lch(40.56% 55.15 40.30)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 63%, 77%, 35%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Peplos
modifier

Greek πέπλος, Hellenic-women's-robe. As a color modifier, peplos implies a Hellenic-women's-peplos-and-pinned-shoulder quality, the visual register of Hellenic-peplos-and-Athena-Parthenos hand-Hellenic-women's-peplos-and-pinned-shoulder Hellenic-peplos-and-Athena-Parthenos-and-Panathenaic-festival peplos-and-Hellenic-women's-peplos surfaces under Hellenic-peplos-and-Athena-Parthenos-and-Panathenaic-festival Athenian-Acropolis-and-Panathenaic-procession Hellenic-court-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to chiton and tunic in usage.

Brick
noun

Fired clay, mineral red. The color refers to common building brick — iron-rich earthenware kilned to the specific dusky red-orange of a Victorian terrace, a Roman aqueduct, an adobe wall in New Mexico. Less saturated than ruby, warmer than burgundy, with a chalky cast that reads as architectural rather than decorative.

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.

#a63d27
Original
#5a5124
Protanopia
#746823
Deuteranopia
#b72339
Tritanopia
#525252
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
6.33:1
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
3.32:1

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
##A63D27
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6029 0.2666 0.1841)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.143

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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