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Triumphant Sienna

#b4561b
Notes

Triumphant Sienna (#B4561B) is a true orange with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (23°, 74%, 41%) 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
#b4561b
RGB
rgb(180, 86, 27)
HSL
hsl(23, 74%, 41%)
HWB
hwb(23 11% 29%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.1% 0.140 47.8)
HSV
hsv(23, 85%, 71%)
LAB
lab(47.55% 34.70 48.94)
LCH
lch(47.55% 59.99 54.66)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 52%, 85%, 29%)

Etymology

Triumphant
adjective

Latin triumphāns, celebrating victory — present-participle of triumphāre. As a color modifier, triumphant implies a saturated-and-celebratory-and-victorious quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Imperial-period triumphal-arch spolia relief and Arch-of-Titus victory imagery. Sits at the bold-and-celebratory end of the grid, parallel to victorious and conquering.

Sienna
noun

Named for the Tuscan city of Siena, which lent its name to the iron-rich earth pigment ground from local clay since the Renaissance. Raw sienna is a warm yellow-brown; burnt sienna is the same earth fired in a kiln to a deeper red-orange. The color refers to the burnt form: a warm, dusty orange with the matte finish of mineral pigment, used in Florentine fresco and oil painting alike.

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.

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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.

#b4561b
Original
#716410
Protanopia
#887918
Deuteranopia
#c6414b
Tritanopia
#666666
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
4.90:1
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
4.29:1

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