Suffused Naranja
Suffused Naranja (#702608) is a deep orange with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (17°, 87%, 24%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark 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
Latin suffundere, to pour beneath — past-participle of suffuse. As a color modifier, suffused implies a deep-saturation-and-warmth where the hue has been infused with pigment from within. Sits at the deep-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to infused and warmer than drenched.
The Spanish word for orange — borrowed from the same Persian nāranj via Arabic into the Iberian peninsula. Naranja names both the fruit (sweet orange — Citrus sinensis, brought by the Portuguese) and the color. The color refers to a ripe Valencian naranja: a saturated, slightly red orange with the satin finish of waxed citrus rind. The Spanish cousin of narangi and burtuqāl.
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.