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Adamant Beaujolais

#c44657
Notes

Adamant Beaujolais (#C44657) is a true red 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 (352°, 52%, 52%) 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#c44657
RGB
rgb(196, 70, 87)
HSL
hsl(352, 52%, 52%)
HWB
hwb(352 27% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.2% 0.161 15.9)
HSV
hsv(352, 64%, 77%)
LAB
lab(48.02% 51.44 17.64)
LCH
lch(48.02% 54.38 18.93)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 64%, 56%, 23%)

Etymology

Adamant
adjective

Greek adámas, unconquerable — derived from a- (not) plus damnan (to subdue). As a color modifier, adamant implies a saturated-and-rock-hard quality where the hue maintains diamond-hard pigmentation. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to indomitable and ironclad in usage.

Beaujolais
noun

The French wine region just south of Burgundy — and the Gamay-based reds of Beaujolais Nouveau. The color refers to a fresh Beaujolais Nouveau in a glass: a saturated, slightly cool red with the optical brightness of low-tannin young wine. Lighter than Burgundy, brighter than Chianti.

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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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.

#c44657
Original
#656157
Protanopia
#857c54
Deuteranopia
#d62e4d
Tritanopia
#626262
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
4.82:1
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
4.36:1

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