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Reposeful Punjab

#d7d67a
Notes

Reposeful Punjab (#D7D67A) 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 (59°, 54%, 66%) 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#d7d67a
RGB
rgb(215, 214, 122)
HSL
hsl(59, 54%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(59 48% 16%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.7% 0.115 108.0)
HSV
hsv(59, 43%, 84%)
LAB
lab(83.94% -12.64 45.39)
LCH
lch(83.94% 47.12 105.56)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 0%, 43%, 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.

Punjab
noun

The northwestern Indian-Pakistani region — and the bright mustard-yellow of sarson (mustard) fields in March. Punjab refers to a sarson field in early spring: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow with the matte finish of small clustered florets covering the entire landscape. Warmer than rapeseed.

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.

#d7d67a
Original
#e3cf72
Protanopia
#e5d37e
Deuteranopia
#e3ccc0
Tritanopia
#d0d0d0
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
1.52:1
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
13.79:1

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