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Bountiful Lake

#b0391f
Notes

Bountiful Lake (#B0391F) is a true red with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (11°, 70%, 41%) 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
#b0391f
RGB
rgb(176, 57, 31)
HSL
hsl(11, 70%, 41%)
HWB
hwb(11 12% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(51.5% 0.159 33.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6377 0.2576 0.1635)
HSV
hsv(11, 82%, 69%)
LAB
lab(41.62% 47.11 41.54)
LCH
lch(41.62% 62.81 41.41)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 68%, 82%, 31%)

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.

Lake
noun

A general term for an organic pigment laked onto an inorganic base — particularly red lakes from kermes, cochineal, or madder, used in Renaissance and Baroque oil painting where pure plant or insect dyes lacked stability. The color refers to a cochineal lake-tinted glaze in a Vermeer painting: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the matte translucency of a thin pigment-and-binder layer.

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.

#b0391f
Original
#5c511b
Protanopia
#796c19
Deuteranopia
#c21234
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).
AAon White
6.09:1
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
3.45:1

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
##B0391F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6377 0.2576 0.1635)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.159

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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