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Abundant Mango

#b24c32
Notes

Abundant Mango (#B24C32) 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 (12°, 56%, 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
#b24c32
RGB
rgb(178, 76, 50)
HSL
hsl(12, 56%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(12 20% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.5% 0.139 35.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6492 0.3221 0.2262)
HSV
hsv(12, 72%, 70%)
LAB
lab(45.45% 39.88 35.53)
LCH
lch(45.45% 53.41 41.70)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 57%, 72%, 30%)

Etymology

Abundant
adjective

Latin abundāre, to overflow — present-participle of abound. As a color modifier, abundant implies a saturated-and-plentiful quality where the hue carries surplus visual richness beyond minimum requirement. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to plentiful and bountiful.

Mango
noun

Mangifera indica, the tropical drupe domesticated in the Indian subcontinent four thousand years ago and now the most-consumed fruit in the world by tonnage. The color is the inside of a ripe Alphonso or Ataulfo mango: a saturated, golden orange that's deeper than apricot and warmer than yolk. Carotenoids again — the unifying pigment of the warm orange family across plants and animals.

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.

#b24c32
Original
#685e2f
Protanopia
#81742f
Deuteranopia
#c33646
Tritanopia
#606060
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
5.29:1
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
3.97:1

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
##B24C32
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6492 0.3221 0.2262)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.139

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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