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Indigenous Ragdoll

#bcb4a8
Notes

Indigenous Ragdoll (#BCB4A8) is a true amber 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 (36°, 13%, 70%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#bcb4a8
RGB
rgb(188, 180, 168)
HSL
hsl(36, 13%, 70%)
HWB
hwb(36 66% 26%)
OKLCH
oklch(77.3% 0.019 78.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7318 0.7070 0.6638)
HSV
hsv(36, 11%, 74%)
LAB
lab(73.65% 0.74 7.13)
LCH
lch(73.65% 7.17 84.08)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 4%, 11%, 26%)

Etymology

Indigenous
adjective

Latin indigena, native-born — adjectival suffix -ous. As a color modifier, indigenous implies a neutral-and-native-and-traditional quality, the neutral color of Indigenous-and-First-Nations hand-built-and-tradition-rooted ceremonial-craft pottery-and-textile-and-totem surface-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to native and aboriginal in usage.

Ragdoll
noun

North American long-haired cat breed — the iconic pale-cream-and-pale-gray colorpoint breed developed in the 1960s in California, with characteristic floppy-relaxed body-language. Ragdoll color refers to a fully grown blue-point Ragdoll cat dorsal-coat in raking light: a pale cool gray with the silky finish of colorpoint cool-cream-and-blue-pigmented fur with characteristic Ragdoll relaxed body-musculature.

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.

#bcb4a8
Original
#b8b4a7
Protanopia
#bab6a8
Deuteranopia
#c0b2b1
Tritanopia
#b5b5b5
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
2.05:1
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
10.23:1

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
##BCB4A8
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7318 0.7070 0.6638)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.019

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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