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Unblemished Bruciato

#b37c69
Notes

Unblemished Bruciato (#B37C69) 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°, 33%, 56%) 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b37c69
RGB
rgb(179, 124, 105)
HSL
hsl(15, 33%, 56%)
HWB
hwb(15 41% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.7% 0.075 39.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6701 0.4954 0.4248)
HSV
hsv(15, 41%, 70%)
LAB
lab(57.10% 19.00 18.97)
LCH
lch(57.10% 26.85 44.96)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 31%, 41%, 30%)

Etymology

Unblemished
adjective

Old French blesmir, to wound — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of blemish. As a color modifier, unblemished implies a clear-and-flawless quality where the hue carries no defect or imperfection. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and spotless 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.

#b37c69
Original
#898268
Protanopia
#968e69
Deuteranopia
#c07477
Tritanopia
#868686
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
3.50:1
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
6.00:1

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
##B37C69
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6701 0.4954 0.4248)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.075

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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