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Homemade Sefīd

#b0b0a3
Notes

Homemade Sefīd (#B0B0A3) is a true yellow 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 (60°, 8%, 66%) 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b0b0a3
RGB
rgb(176, 176, 163)
HSL
hsl(60, 8%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(60 64% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.3% 0.018 106.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6902 0.6902 0.6440)
HSV
hsv(60, 7%, 69%)
LAB
lab(71.50% -2.35 6.66)
LCH
lch(71.50% 7.06 109.48)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 0%, 7%, 31%)

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.

Sefīd
noun

Persian سفید, white — the cardinal pale-color of Iranian-Turkic-and-Mughal color tradition, particularly the pale-cream-white of Marvdasht-Plain cotton-and-silk for ceremonial-and-funerary contexts. Sefīd color refers to a Safavid-period sefīd-cotton ceremonial qaba coat: a pale cool gray with the matte finish of pure-white hand-spun cotton with multi-decade Iranian-court-and-funerary patina.

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.

#b0b0a3
Original
#b3afa2
Protanopia
#b3afa3
Deuteranopia
#b2aeac
Tritanopia
#afafaf
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
2.19:1
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
9.59:1

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
##B0B0A3
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6902 0.6902 0.6440)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.018

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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