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Reposeful Solarium

#c4d771
Notes

Reposeful Solarium (#C4D771) is a true yellow 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 (71°, 56%, 64%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#c4d771
RGB
rgb(196, 215, 113)
HSL
hsl(71, 56%, 64%)
HWB
hwb(71 44% 16%)
OKLCH
oklch(84.3% 0.129 118.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7825 0.8408 0.4945)
HSV
hsv(71, 47%, 84%)
LAB
lab(82.66% -21.52 47.87)
LCH
lch(82.66% 52.48 114.20)
CMYK
cmyk(9%, 0%, 47%, 16%)

Etymology

Reposeful
adjective

Latin repōnere, to put back — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, reposeful implies a clear-and-restful-and-still quality, the calm color of pre-modern monastic cloister-and-refectory meditative-and-silent interior architecture. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to peaceful and placid in usage.

Solarium
noun

A glass-roofed sunroom — particularly the Victorian and Edwardian solarium of British country houses, designed to capture warm sunlight on cool days. Solarium as a color refers to the warm yellow of sun-bleached interior wood and faded yellow-painted plaster: a soft, slightly muted warm yellow with the matte finish of UV-aged surface.

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.

#c4d771
Original
#e3ce68
Protanopia
#e1ce76
Deuteranopia
#cdcdbf
Tritanopia
#cccccc
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
1.58:1
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
13.31:1

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
##C4D771
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7825 0.8408 0.4945)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.129

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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