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Easy Jerusalem

#b28625
Notes

Easy Jerusalem (#B28625) is a true amber with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (41°, 66%, 42%) 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
#b28625
RGB
rgb(178, 134, 37)
HSL
hsl(41, 66%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(41 15% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(64.6% 0.121 82.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6715 0.5324 0.2258)
HSV
hsv(41, 79%, 70%)
LAB
lab(58.65% 7.81 54.95)
LCH
lch(58.65% 55.51 81.91)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 25%, 79%, 30%)

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.

Jerusalem
noun

The cream-and-gold limestone — meleke — used in Jerusalem's Old City walls, religious sites, and modern Israeli construction. By city ordinance, all new buildings must be faced with Jerusalem stone. The color refers to a freshly cut Jerusalem-stone block: a soft, slightly cool warm cream-tan with the matte finish of porous Cretaceous limestone.

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.

#b28625
Original
#988612
Protanopia
#a3922a
Deuteranopia
#c27973
Tritanopia
#888888
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).
AA Largeon White
3.32:1
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
6.33:1

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
##B28625
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6715 0.5324 0.2258)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.121

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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