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Orderly Bruciato

#a66746
Notes

Orderly Bruciato (#A66746) is a true orange 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 (21°, 41%, 46%) 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
#a66746
RGB
rgb(166, 103, 70)
HSL
hsl(21, 41%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(21 27% 35%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.5% 0.094 47.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6161 0.4152 0.2977)
HSV
hsv(21, 58%, 65%)
LAB
lab(49.80% 21.89 29.08)
LCH
lch(49.80% 36.40 53.02)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 38%, 58%, 35%)

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.

Bruciato
noun

The Italian word for burnt — used in pigment vocabulary for terra di Siena bruciata (burnt sienna) and terra d'ombra bruciata (burnt umber). Bruciato implies a color that has been concentrated by heat. The color refers to a Sienese bruciato-pigment: a warm, slightly muted deep orange-brown with the matte finish of fired iron-oxide pigment.

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.

#a66746
Original
#786e43
Protanopia
#877c46
Deuteranopia
#b45b5f
Tritanopia
#727272
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
4.52:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
4.65:1

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
##A66746
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6161 0.4152 0.2977)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.094

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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