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Lined Vermont

#786e20
Notes

Lined Vermont (#786E20) is a deep amber with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (53°, 58%, 30%) places it in the balanced 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
#786e20
RGB
rgb(120, 110, 32)
HSL
hsl(53, 58%, 30%)
HWB
hwb(53 13% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.2% 0.097 101.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4639 0.4327 0.1816)
HSV
hsv(53, 73%, 47%)
LAB
lab(45.97% -5.72 42.70)
LCH
lch(45.97% 43.08 97.63)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 8%, 73%, 53%)

Etymology

Lined
adjective

Old English līne, line / cord — past-participle of line. As a color modifier, lined implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-supported quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-lined-and-supported textile-or-print surface. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and coordinated in usage.

Vermont
noun

The American Northeast state — and the warm gold-yellow of Vermont sugar-maple foliage at peak fall color and Vermont Grade-A medium-amber maple syrup. Vermont refers to a Vermont Acer saccharum canopy in mid-October: a saturated, slightly red yellow-orange with the optical complexity of carotenoid-rich autumn leaves.

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.

#786e20
Original
#796a14
Protanopia
#7c6f25
Deuteranopia
#81665e
Tritanopia
#6a6a6a
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
5.19:1
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
4.05:1

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
##786E20
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4639 0.4327 0.1816)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.097

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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