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Orderly Tanager

#b58a97
Notes

Orderly Tanager (#B58A97) 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 (342°, 23%, 63%) 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b58a97
RGB
rgb(181, 138, 151)
HSL
hsl(342, 23%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(342 54% 29%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.8% 0.055 358.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6837 0.5479 0.5909)
HSV
hsv(342, 24%, 71%)
LAB
lab(61.86% 18.40 -0.55)
LCH
lch(61.86% 18.41 358.28)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 24%, 17%, 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.

Tanager
noun

The genus Piranga — particularly P. olivacea, the scarlet tanager of North American summer forests, whose breeding-season males are vivid red with black wings. The color refers to a male scarlet tanager at full breeding plumage: a saturated, slightly cool bright red with the matte finish of carotenoid-pigmented feathers. Brighter than cardinal, warmer than crimson.

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.

#b58a97
Original
#8f9197
Protanopia
#999896
Deuteranopia
#bc888e
Tritanopia
#949494
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
2.98:1
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
7.05:1

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
##B58A97
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6837 0.5479 0.5909)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.055

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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