Stilled Branco
Stilled Branco (#EEDCDA) is a soft red with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (6°, 37%, 89%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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.
Etymology
The past participle of still, to make quiet — used as a color modifier in literary contexts for hues that read as deeply at rest. Stilled gray, stilled white: very low saturation combined with optical stillness. Sits at the neutral-bucket alongside tranquil and quiet.
Portuguese branco, white — the cardinal pure-white of Portuguese color tradition, particularly the iconic branco-do-Algarve whitewashed-fishing-village stucco. Branco color refers to a freshly applied branco-do-Algarve fishing-village stucco-painted facade: a pure white with the matte finish of lime-and-water hand-applied whitewashed-stucco on a hand-built Algarve-coast fishing-village facade.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.