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Velvety Yamabuki

#b94423
Notes

Velvety Yamabuki (#B94423) 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 (13°, 68%, 43%) 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
#b94423
RGB
rgb(185, 68, 35)
HSL
hsl(13, 68%, 43%)
HWB
hwb(13 14% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.4% 0.158 36.1)
HSV
hsv(13, 81%, 73%)
LAB
lab(45.04% 45.64 43.37)
LCH
lch(45.04% 62.96 43.54)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 63%, 81%, 27%)

Etymology

Velvety
adjective

An adjectival form of velvet, used since the eighteenth century for colors that read as if they had the matte light-absorbing quality of velvet. Implies high saturation combined with a non-glossy surface — the matte richness of a deep wine in a fabric rather than in a glass. Sits in the bold-and-deep corner of the grid alongside plush and lush.

Yamabuki
noun

Kerria japonica, the Japanese rose-family shrub whose bright yellow-orange flowers cover steep hillsides in late spring. Yamabuki-iro (mountain-rose color) gave Japanese its name for a saturated yellow-orange hue used in court robes and woodblock prints. The color refers to a fully open kerria flower: a saturated, slightly red-shifted yellow-orange with the satin finish of small five-petaled bloom. Warmer than canary, lighter than marigold.

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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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.

#b94423
Original
#655a1e
Protanopia
#82741e
Deuteranopia
#cc253d
Tritanopia
#5a5a5a
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
5.37:1
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
3.91:1

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