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Fine Sunrise

#b18e82
Notes

Fine Sunrise (#B18E82) is a true orange with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (15°, 23%, 60%) places it in the muted 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b18e82
RGB
rgb(177, 142, 130)
HSL
hsl(15, 23%, 60%)
HWB
hwb(15 51% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.6% 0.046 39.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6724 0.5621 0.5172)
HSV
hsv(15, 27%, 69%)
LAB
lab(61.92% 11.38 11.40)
LCH
lch(61.92% 16.11 45.06)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 20%, 27%, 31%)

Etymology

Fine
adjective

Old French fin, fine / refined — sharing root with Latin fīnis (end). As a color modifier, fine implies a pale-and-precisely-detailed-and-refined quality where the hue carries the visual register of Sèvres-and-Meissen fine-bone-china porcelain finely-detailed surface. Sits at the pale-and-delicate end of the grid, parallel to delicate and filigree 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.

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.

#b18e82
Original
#969181
Protanopia
#9e9882
Deuteranopia
#ba898b
Tritanopia
#959595
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).
Failon White
2.97:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
7.06:1

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
##B18E82
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6724 0.5621 0.5172)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.046

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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