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Flat Egypt

#865f1b
Notes

Flat Egypt (#865F1B) 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 (38°, 66%, 32%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#865f1b
RGB
rgb(134, 95, 27)
HSL
hsl(38, 66%, 32%)
HWB
hwb(38 11% 47%)
OKLCH
oklch(51.4% 0.096 76.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5025 0.3789 0.1614)
HSV
hsv(38, 80%, 53%)
LAB
lab(43.26% 9.39 42.68)
LCH
lch(43.26% 43.70 77.59)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 29%, 80%, 47%)

Etymology

Flat
adjective

Old Norse flatr, flat / level. As a color modifier, flat implies a clear-and-evenly-spread quality where the hue carries the matte-finish visual register of unmodulated single-plane surface. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to level and even in usage.

Egypt
noun

The civilization that established the Western world's earliest sustained color vocabulary — and the warm yellow-tan of Egyptian sandstone, the gold of Tutankhamun's death mask, and the ochre of pharaonic tomb painting. Egypt refers to the desert sand of the Theban necropolis at dawn: a saturated, slightly cool warm yellow-tan with the matte finish of windblown quartz.

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.

#865f1b
Original
#6e6110
Protanopia
#776a1e
Deuteranopia
#925452
Tritanopia
#626262
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
5.73:1
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
3.67:1

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
##865F1B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5025 0.3789 0.1614)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.096

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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