Wellbred Cremisi
Wellbred Cremisi (#B93315) is a true red with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (11°, 80%, 40%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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.
Etymology
Old English wel-brēd, well-bred — past-participle of breed, sharing root with brood (offspring). As a color modifier, wellbred implies a saturated-and-elegant-and-formal quality, the deep-rich color of Edwardian-period finishing-school-and-debutante-Court English-aristocratic livery. Sits at the bold-and-elegant end of the grid, parallel to highborn and patrician.
Italian for crimson — borrowed from the same Arabic qirmiz via medieval Venetian trade, and used in the deep red velvets of Florentine Renaissance court dress. The color refers to a cremisi-dyed Lucchese velvet: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the velvet's signature optical depth. The Italian cousin of carmesí.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
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.