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Orderly Chianti

#b56166
Notes

Orderly Chianti (#B56166) is a true red 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 (356°, 36%, 55%) 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
#b56166
RGB
rgb(181, 97, 102)
HSL
hsl(356, 36%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(356 38% 29%)
OKLCH
oklch(59.1% 0.108 17.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6661 0.3972 0.4066)
HSV
hsv(356, 46%, 71%)
LAB
lab(51.08% 34.33 12.48)
LCH
lch(51.08% 36.53 19.98)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 46%, 44%, 29%)

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.

Chianti
noun

The Tuscan wine region between Florence and Siena — and the Sangiovese-based reds of Chianti Classico, the gallo nero black-rooster appellation that has marked authentic bottles since 1924. The color refers to a young Chianti Classico in a glass: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the optical clarity of medium-tannin wine. Lighter than Bordeaux, warmer than Burgundy.

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.

#b56166
Original
#726f66
Protanopia
#878064
Deuteranopia
#c35763
Tritanopia
#737373
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
4.32:1
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
4.87:1

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
##B56166
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6661 0.3972 0.4066)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.108

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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