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Jazzed Mughal

#b7a310
Notes

Jazzed Mughal (#B7A310) is a true amber 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 (53°, 84%, 39%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b7a310
RGB
rgb(183, 163, 16)
HSL
hsl(53, 84%, 39%)
HWB
hwb(53 6% 28%)
OKLCH
oklch(71.1% 0.145 100.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7045 0.6420 0.2190)
HSV
hsv(53, 91%, 72%)
LAB
lab(66.75% -6.25 67.53)
LCH
lch(66.75% 67.82 95.29)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 11%, 91%, 28%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Mughal
noun

The Mughal Empire (1526–1857) — and the warm yellow palette of Mughal miniature painting, particularly the Mughal Yellow pigment derived from cow urine and used for the saturated yellow robes of Akbar-period court paintings. The color refers to a Mughal jali sandstone screen at the Diwan-i-Khas: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep yellow with the matte finish of carved sandstone.

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.

#b7a310
Original
#b49e00
Protanopia
#b9a621
Deuteranopia
#c6968b
Tritanopia
#9d9d9d
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
2.54:1
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
8.26:1

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
##B7A310
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7045 0.6420 0.2190)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.145

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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