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Lacy Lohita

#b08d89
Notes

Lacy Lohita (#B08D89) 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 (6°, 20%, 61%) 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b08d89
RGB
rgb(176, 141, 137)
HSL
hsl(6, 20%, 61%)
HWB
hwb(6 54% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.5% 0.043 25.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6684 0.5582 0.5415)
HSV
hsv(6, 22%, 69%)
LAB
lab(61.73% 12.60 7.16)
LCH
lch(61.73% 14.49 29.61)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 20%, 22%, 31%)

Etymology

Lacy
adjective

Old French laz, lace — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, lacy implies a pale-and-decorative-and-open-network quality, the pale color of Edwardian-period hand-tatted-and-bobbin-lace bridal-and-formal-wear delicate-network-pattern textile. Sits at the pale-and-decorative end of the grid, parallel to filigree and cobwebby in usage.

Lohita
noun

The Sanskrit word for copper-red — used in Vedic texts and Sanskrit poetry for the slightly metallic red-brown of copper, dried blood, and certain river clays. The color refers to a freshly cleaved copper ore: a soft, slightly muted deep red-brown with the matte finish of copper-and-iron oxide. Drier than copper, warmer than rust.

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.

#b08d89
Original
#949189
Protanopia
#9c9889
Deuteranopia
#b8898c
Tritanopia
#949494
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
2.99:1
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
7.02:1

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
##B08D89
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6684 0.5582 0.5415)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.043

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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