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Brimming Lohita

#b12744
Notes

Brimming Lohita (#B12744) 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 (347°, 64%, 42%) 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b12744
RGB
rgb(177, 39, 68)
HSL
hsl(347, 64%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(347 15% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.4% 0.173 14.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6384 0.2035 0.2753)
HSV
hsv(347, 78%, 69%)
LAB
lab(39.95% 55.76 17.95)
LCH
lch(39.95% 58.58 17.85)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 78%, 62%, 31%)

Etymology

Brimming
adjective

Old English brymme, brim / edge — present-participle of brim. As a color modifier, brimming implies a saturated-and-overflowing quality where the hue spills past the edge of its visual container with rich pigmentation. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to replete and abundant.

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.

#b12744
Original
#4e4c44
Protanopia
#716840
Deuteranopia
#c20033
Tritanopia
#464646
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
6.48:1
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
3.24:1

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
##B12744
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6384 0.2035 0.2753)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.173

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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