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Abundant Sakura

#d33739
Notes

Abundant Sakura (#D33739) 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 (359°, 64%, 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#d33739
RGB
rgb(211, 55, 57)
HSL
hsl(359, 64%, 52%)
HWB
hwb(359 22% 17%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.6% 0.193 25.1)
HSV
hsv(359, 74%, 83%)
LAB
lab(48.11% 60.16 36.14)
LCH
lch(48.11% 70.19 31.00)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 74%, 73%, 17%)

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.

Sakura
noun

The flowering cherry — Prunus serrulata — and the unifying spring color of Japanese aesthetic life. The color refers to a somei-yoshino cherry in full bloom: a soft, slightly cool pale red-pink with the matte finish of five-petaled bloom. Lighter than rose, cooler than coral, with the ephemeral weight of a flower whose two-week bloom defines an entire season's poetry.

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.

#d33739
Original
#655d37
Protanopia
#8c7e33
Deuteranopia
#e8003a
Tritanopia
#585858
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
4.80:1
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
4.38:1

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