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Abundant Bruciato

#bd5c09
Notes

Abundant Bruciato (#BD5C09) is a true orange 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 (28°, 91%, 39%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#bd5c09
RGB
rgb(189, 92, 9)
HSL
hsl(28, 91%, 39%)
HWB
hwb(28 4% 26%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.3% 0.148 51.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6926 0.3816 0.1470)
HSV
hsv(28, 95%, 74%)
LAB
lab(50.09% 34.90 56.96)
LCH
lch(50.09% 66.81 58.50)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 51%, 95%, 26%)

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.

Bruciato
noun

The Italian word for burnt — used in pigment vocabulary for terra di Siena bruciata (burnt sienna) and terra d'ombra bruciata (burnt umber). Bruciato implies a color that has been concentrated by heat. The color refers to a Sienese bruciato-pigment: a warm, slightly muted deep orange-brown with the matte finish of fired iron-oxide pigment.

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.

#bd5c09
Original
#796900
Protanopia
#908004
Deuteranopia
#d0454f
Tritanopia
#6b6b6b
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).
AA Largeon White
4.47:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
4.70:1

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
##BD5C09
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6926 0.3816 0.1470)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.148

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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