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Plentiful Chá

#bf761d
Notes

Plentiful Chá (#BF761D) is a true orange with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (33°, 74%, 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#bf761d
RGB
rgb(191, 118, 29)
HSL
hsl(33, 74%, 43%)
HWB
hwb(33 11% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.1% 0.132 64.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7088 0.4759 0.2003)
HSV
hsv(33, 85%, 75%)
LAB
lab(56.21% 22.18 56.22)
LCH
lch(56.21% 60.43 68.47)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 38%, 85%, 25%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Chá
noun

The Chinese word for tea — used as a color word for the warm brown of brewed tea liquor and the wood of chá-jī (tea tables). The color refers to fresh-brewed Pu-erh tea in a porcelain cup: a soft, slightly cool deep brown with the optical depth of well-fermented tea. Cooler than caramel, drier than mahogany.

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.

#bf761d
Original
#8d7d07
Protanopia
#9f8d1f
Deuteranopia
#d16565
Tritanopia
#7f7f7f
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
3.61:1
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
5.82:1

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
##BF761D
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7088 0.4759 0.2003)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.132

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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