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Orderly Ginger

#796205
Notes

Orderly Ginger (#796205) is a deep amber 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 (48°, 92%, 25%) 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#796205
RGB
rgb(121, 98, 5)
HSL
hsl(48, 92%, 25%)
HWB
hwb(48 2% 53%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.4% 0.102 92.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4601 0.3877 0.1204)
HSV
hsv(48, 96%, 47%)
LAB
lab(42.48% 0.71 48.32)
LCH
lch(42.48% 48.33 89.16)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 19%, 96%, 53%)

Etymology

Orderly
adjective

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Ginger
noun

Zingiber officinale, the rhizome of a Southeast Asian ginger plant cultivated since prehistoric times in Maritime Asia. The color refers to fresh ginger root after its papery skin is peeled: a warm, slightly pink-toned gold-tan that's lighter than honey and warmer than wheat. Also the human hair color called ginger in British English — the same word covering the rhizome, the spice, and the Celtic-coded redhead.

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.

#796205
Original
#6e6000
Protanopia
#74670e
Deuteranopia
#845953
Tritanopia
#606060
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
5.90:1
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
3.56:1

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
##796205
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4601 0.3877 0.1204)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.102

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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