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Untroubled Złoty

#b97f36
Notes

Untroubled Złoty (#B97F36) is a true orange with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (33°, 55%, 47%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b97f36
RGB
rgb(185, 127, 54)
HSL
hsl(33, 55%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(33 21% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(64.2% 0.114 69.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6920 0.5078 0.2654)
HSV
hsv(33, 71%, 73%)
LAB
lab(57.81% 15.59 47.24)
LCH
lch(57.81% 49.75 71.74)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 31%, 71%, 27%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Złoty
noun

The Polish word for gold — and the name of Poland's national currency since the fourteenth century. Złoty in Polish color vocabulary refers to the warm yellow-gold of Polish baroque church gilding. The color refers to fresh gold leaf on a Krakow altarpiece: a saturated, slightly warm deep gold with the metallic finish of beaten gold. The Polish cousin of or.

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.

#b97f36
Original
#93832d
Protanopia
#a09038
Deuteranopia
#c9716f
Tritanopia
#868686
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
3.41:1
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
6.15:1

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
##B97F36
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6920 0.5078 0.2654)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.114

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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