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Senatorial Mango

#b95729
Notes

Senatorial Mango (#B95729) 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 (19°, 64%, 44%) 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
#b95729
RGB
rgb(185, 87, 41)
HSL
hsl(19, 64%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(19 16% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.1% 0.140 43.6)
HSV
hsv(19, 78%, 73%)
LAB
lab(48.63% 36.66 43.95)
LCH
lch(48.63% 57.24 50.17)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 53%, 78%, 27%)

Etymology

Senatorial
adjective

Latin senātōrius, of the senator — adjectival suffix. As a color modifier, senatorial implies a saturated-and-aristocratic-and-Roman-Republic quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Senate toga praetexta purple-bordered ceremonial-citizen-class livery. Sits at the bold-and-aristocratic end of the grid, parallel to patrician and imperial.

Mango
noun

Mangifera indica, the tropical drupe domesticated in the Indian subcontinent four thousand years ago and now the most-consumed fruit in the world by tonnage. The color is the inside of a ripe Alphonso or Ataulfo mango: a saturated, golden orange that's deeper than apricot and warmer than yolk. Carotenoids again — the unifying pigment of the warm orange family across plants and animals.

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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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.

#b95729
Original
#726623
Protanopia
#8a7c27
Deuteranopia
#cb424d
Tritanopia
#696969
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
4.71:1
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
4.46:1

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