Outdoor Hen
Outdoor Hen (#FDECEB) 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 (3°, 82%, 96%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
English compound out + door — sharing root with German außerhalb. As a color modifier, outdoor implies a neutral-and-natural-and-weather-exposed quality, the neutral color of L-L-Bean-and-Patagonia outdoor-clothing weather-exposed-and-utilitarian outdoor-and-camping textile-finish surface. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to natural and weathered in usage.
Gallus gallus domesticus — domesticated chicken, particularly the iconic pure-white White-Leghorn and White-Plymouth-Rock commercial-egg-laying breeds. Hen color refers to a White-Leghorn breeding-plumage on a small-flock backyard-coop in raking late-summer light: a pure white with the matte finish of melanin-depleted feather barbs against a Gallus gallus yellow-legs-and-comb structural pattern.
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.