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Reasonably Yogurt

#b3a1a7
Notes

Reasonably Yogurt (#B3A1A7) 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 (340°, 11%, 67%) 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
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RGB
rgb(179, 161, 167)
HSL
hsl(340, 11%, 67%)
HWB
hwb(340 63% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.6% 0.023 355.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6901 0.6339 0.6541)
HSV
hsv(340, 10%, 70%)
LAB
lab(67.92% 7.61 -0.72)
LCH
lch(67.92% 7.65 354.63)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 10%, 7%, 30%)

Etymology

Reasonably
adjective

Latin ratiōnābilis, rational — adverbial-and-adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, reasonably implies a neutral-and-rational-and-moderate quality where the hue carries the visual register of moderate-and-balanced-and-rational coordinated color-decision. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to sensibly and moderately in usage.

Yogurt
noun

Turkish yoğurt, thickened-milk — the iconic pale-cream-and-pale-gray-white cultured-dairy of Anatolian-Balkan-and-Levantine cuisine, the base of tzatziki-and-cacık. Yogurt color refers to a freshly hand-strained süzme yoğurt (Turkish strained yogurt) on a Turkish hand-thrown-clay serving-bowl: a pale cool gray with the matte finish of cultured-dairy protein-coagulated yogurt with the characteristic strained-yogurt texture.

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.

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Original
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Protanopia
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Deuteranopia
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Tritanopia
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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
2.45:1
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
8.57:1

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
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Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6901 0.6339 0.6541)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.023

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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