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Vintage Topazio

#605940
Notes

Vintage Topazio (#605940) is a deep amber with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (47°, 20%, 31%) places it in the muted band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. 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
#605940
RGB
rgb(96, 89, 64)
HSL
hsl(47, 20%, 31%)
HWB
hwb(47 25% 62%)
OKLCH
oklch(46.4% 0.039 94.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3718 0.3500 0.2622)
HSV
hsv(47, 33%, 38%)
LAB
lab(37.85% -1.51 15.53)
LCH
lch(37.85% 15.60 95.57)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 7%, 33%, 62%)

Etymology

Vintage
adjective

Latin vīndēmia, grape-harvest — adjectival usage of vintage. As a color modifier, vintage implies a hushed-and-aged-and-storied quality where the hue carries the multi-decade survival-and-collection visual register of period-correct Mid-Century-Modern and Victorian preserved-textile. Sits at the hushed-and-aged end of the grid, parallel to patinated and antique in usage.

Topazio
noun

The Italian word for topaz — used in Renaissance jewelry vocabulary and Italian fashion writing for the warm gold-yellow of imperial topaz. The color refers to a faceted Italian-cut topazio: a saturated, slightly cool deep gold-yellow with the gem's signature internal warmth. The Italian cousin of topaz.

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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Harmonies

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.

#605940
Original
#5e583e
Protanopia
#605a41
Deuteranopia
#655552
Tritanopia
#595959
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
7.00:1
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
3.00:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

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.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##605940
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3718 0.3500 0.2622)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.039

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.

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