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Bountiful Phoenix

#ce5438
Notes

Bountiful Phoenix (#CE5438) 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 (11°, 60%, 51%) 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#ce5438
RGB
rgb(206, 84, 56)
HSL
hsl(11, 60%, 51%)
HWB
hwb(11 22% 19%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.0% 0.161 34.4)
HSV
hsv(11, 73%, 81%)
LAB
lab(51.56% 46.73 40.33)
LCH
lch(51.56% 61.73 40.80)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 59%, 73%, 19%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Phoenix
noun

The mythological bird that burns and is reborn from its ashes — and the Arizona state capital named for the bird. Phoenix as a color refers to the saturated red-orange of a Sonoran desert sunset over the city: a saturated, slightly red orange with the optical brightness of a desert sky scattering long-wavelength light. Brighter than ember, warmer than tangerine.

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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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.

#ce5438
Original
#756a34
Protanopia
#948534
Deuteranopia
#e2384e
Tritanopia
#6c6c6c
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
4.24:1
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
4.95:1

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