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Buttoned Glow

#775447
Notes

Buttoned Glow (#775447) is a true orange 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 (16°, 25%, 37%) places it in the muted 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#775447
RGB
rgb(119, 84, 71)
HSL
hsl(16, 25%, 37%)
HWB
hwb(16 28% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(48.0% 0.051 41.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4461 0.3351 0.2869)
HSV
hsv(16, 40%, 47%)
LAB
lab(39.10% 12.74 13.38)
LCH
lch(39.10% 18.47 46.41)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 29%, 40%, 53%)

Etymology

Buttoned
adjective

Old French bouton, button — past-participle of button. As a color modifier, buttoned implies a clear-and-fastened-and-formal quality, the crisp color of Edwardian-period formal-attire fully-fastened-and-formally-dressed gentleman's-attire. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and pressed in usage.

Glow
noun

The slight luminance of an object emitting visible light without flame — the warmth of a furnace door, the inside of a kiln, the surface of a hot iron just before it shifts to red heat. The color refers to a warm forge interior: a soft, slightly luminous warm orange with the optical impression of an internal heat source. Cooler than ember.

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.

#775447
Original
#5d5846
Protanopia
#655f47
Deuteranopia
#7f4f51
Tritanopia
#5b5b5b
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
6.68:1
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
3.14:1

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
##775447
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4461 0.3351 0.2869)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.051

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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