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Untroubled Oro

#7c6108
Notes

Untroubled Oro (#7C6108) 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 (46°, 88%, 26%) 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
#7c6108
RGB
rgb(124, 97, 8)
HSL
hsl(46, 88%, 26%)
HWB
hwb(46 3% 51%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.6% 0.101 89.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4696 0.3845 0.1248)
HSV
hsv(46, 94%, 49%)
LAB
lab(42.54% 2.83 47.77)
LCH
lch(42.54% 47.85 86.61)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 22%, 94%, 51%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Oro
noun

The Spanish and Italian word for gold — used in heraldic vocabulary, religious art, and fashion for the metallic warm yellow of Renaissance gilding. The color refers to a freshly gilded Spanish altarpiece: a saturated, slightly cool deep gold with the metallic finish of beaten gold leaf. The Romance-language cousin of jīn and kogane.

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.

#7c6108
Original
#6e6000
Protanopia
#756710
Deuteranopia
#875752
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
5.88:1
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
3.57:1

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
##7C6108
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4696 0.3845 0.1248)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.101

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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