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Bountiful Brazilwood

#b13c37
Notes

Bountiful Brazilwood (#B13C37) is a true red with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (2°, 53%, 45%) 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
#b13c37
RGB
rgb(177, 60, 55)
HSL
hsl(2, 53%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(2 22% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.3% 0.153 26.3)
HSV
hsv(2, 69%, 69%)
LAB
lab(42.55% 47.19 29.23)
LCH
lch(42.55% 55.51 31.78)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 66%, 69%, 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.

Brazilwood
noun

Caesalpinia echinata, the dye-source tree of Atlantic-coast South America — so abundant in Portuguese-controlled territory that it gave the country its name. The color refers to brazilein-dyed silk: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the warm-tone of brazilwood pigment. Deeper than madder, warmer than cochineal.

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.

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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.

#b13c37
Original
#5c5436
Protanopia
#796e34
Deuteranopia
#c21e3c
Tritanopia
#555555
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
5.88:1
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
3.57:1

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