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Webby Yuzu

#b69c8c
Notes

Webby Yuzu (#B69C8C) 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 (23°, 22%, 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b69c8c
RGB
rgb(182, 156, 140)
HSL
hsl(23, 22%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(23 55% 29%)
OKLCH
oklch(71.2% 0.038 53.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6970 0.6155 0.5572)
HSV
hsv(23, 23%, 71%)
LAB
lab(66.23% 7.05 11.93)
LCH
lch(66.23% 13.86 59.42)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 14%, 23%, 29%)

Etymology

Webby
adjective

Old English webb, web — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, webby implies a pale-and-network-and-thin-thread quality, the pale color of attic-and-cellar long-undisturbed cobweb-and-spider-silk thin-network-pattern dust-collected surface. Sits at the pale-and-thin end of the grid, parallel to cobwebby and gossamer in usage.

Yuzu
noun

Citrus junos, the Japanese citrus prized for its aromatic peel — used in yuzu kosho paste, yuzu ponzu, and the yuzu-yu baths of Japanese New Year. The color refers to a fully ripe yuzu in late autumn: a soft, slightly cool yellow-orange with the matte finish of pebbled citrus rind. Cooler than mikan, lighter than tangerine.

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.

#b69c8c
Original
#a39e8b
Protanopia
#a9a38c
Deuteranopia
#be9798
Tritanopia
#a0a0a0
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
2.59:1
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
8.12:1

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
##B69C8C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6970 0.6155 0.5572)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.038

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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