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Easy Chá

#836b2f
Notes

Easy Chá (#836B2F) is a true amber 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 (43°, 47%, 35%) places it in the balanced 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#836b2f
RGB
rgb(131, 107, 47)
HSL
hsl(43, 47%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(43 18% 49%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.9% 0.084 87.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4986 0.4232 0.2221)
HSV
hsv(43, 64%, 51%)
LAB
lab(46.37% 2.14 36.44)
LCH
lch(46.37% 36.50 86.65)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 18%, 64%, 49%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Chá
noun

The Chinese word for tea — used as a color word for the warm brown of brewed tea liquor and the wood of chá-jī (tea tables). The color refers to fresh-brewed Pu-erh tea in a porcelain cup: a soft, slightly cool deep brown with the optical depth of well-fermented tea. Cooler than caramel, drier than mahogany.

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.

#836b2f
Original
#776a29
Protanopia
#7d7131
Deuteranopia
#8e625e
Tritanopia
#6c6c6c
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
5.11:1
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
4.11:1

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
##836B2F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4986 0.4232 0.2221)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.084

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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