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Spotless Sunrise

#7f3308
Notes

Spotless Sunrise (#7F3308) 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 (22°, 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#7f3308
RGB
rgb(127, 51, 8)
HSL
hsl(22, 88%, 26%)
HWB
hwb(22 3% 50%)
OKLCH
oklch(42.2% 0.116 44.2)
HSV
hsv(22, 94%, 50%)
LAB
lab(31.57% 30.83 39.65)
LCH
lch(31.57% 50.23 52.13)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 60%, 94%, 50%)

Etymology

Spotless
adjective

Old English spott (spot) plus suffix -less. As a color modifier, spotless implies a clear-and-unmarked quality where the hue carries no contaminating speck or stain. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and unblemished in usage.

Sunrise
noun

The atmospheric color at the moment the sun crosses the horizon at dawn — the same atmospheric optics as sunset but with cooler, slightly cleaner air at lower morning temperature. The color refers to the eastern horizon at sunrise on a clear summer morning: a saturated, slightly cool orange with the optical brightness of forward-scattered solar light. Cooler than sunset.

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.

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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.

#7f3308
Original
#494000
Protanopia
#5c5104
Deuteranopia
#8c202b
Tritanopia
#404040
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).
AAAon White
8.83:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.38:1

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