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Homemade Ibis

#a8a193
Notes

Homemade Ibis (#A8A193) is a true amber 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 (40°, 11%, 62%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#a8a193
RGB
rgb(168, 161, 147)
HSL
hsl(40, 11%, 62%)
HWB
hwb(40 58% 34%)
OKLCH
oklch(71.1% 0.021 84.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6541 0.6323 0.5822)
HSV
hsv(40, 13%, 66%)
LAB
lab(66.46% 0.06 8.19)
LCH
lch(66.46% 8.19 89.59)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 4%, 13%, 34%)

Etymology

Homemade
adjective

English compound home + past-participle made — sharing root with make. As a color modifier, homemade implies a neutral-and-handcrafted-and-domestic quality, the neutral color of American-and-English-cottage hand-made-and-home-craft household-textile-and-pottery surface-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to handmade and handcrafted in usage.

Ibis
noun

Threskiornithidae family — wading-birds with predominantly pale-cream-and-white plumage, particularly the sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) of African-and-Egyptian-historical religious-iconography. Ibis color refers to a Threskiornis aethiopicus dorsal-feather field on an Egyptian-Nile-Delta wetland: a pale cool gray with the matte finish of melanin-depleted feather barbs against black-pigmented head-and-bill structures.

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.

#a8a193
Original
#a5a192
Protanopia
#a7a293
Deuteranopia
#ac9e9d
Tritanopia
#a1a1a1
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).
Failon White
2.57:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.18:1

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
##A8A193
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6541 0.6323 0.5822)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.021

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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