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Easy Mandarino

#c58066
Notes

Easy Mandarino (#C58066) 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 (16°, 45%, 59%) 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
#c58066
RGB
rgb(197, 128, 102)
HSL
hsl(16, 45%, 59%)
HWB
hwb(16 40% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(66.5% 0.094 41.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7337 0.5140 0.4184)
HSV
hsv(16, 48%, 77%)
LAB
lab(60.13% 23.78 25.11)
LCH
lch(60.13% 34.58 46.56)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 35%, 48%, 23%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Mandarino
noun

The Italian word for mandarinCitrus reticulata — the small citrus cultivated in Sicily since Arab agricultural-period introduction. Mandarino names both the fruit and the slightly cooler, redder orange that distinguishes mandarins from sweet oranges. The color refers to a fresh Sicilian mandarino: a saturated, slightly cool orange with the matte finish of mandarin rind.

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.

#c58066
Original
#918864
Protanopia
#a29765
Deuteranopia
#d47579
Tritanopia
#8d8d8d
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
3.16:1
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
6.65:1

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
##C58066
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7337 0.5140 0.4184)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.094

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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