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Lined Bruciato

#c78671
Notes

Lined Bruciato (#C78671) 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 (15°, 43%, 61%) 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
#c78671
RGB
rgb(199, 134, 113)
HSL
hsl(15, 43%, 61%)
HWB
hwb(15 44% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(68.1% 0.086 38.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7432 0.5365 0.4582)
HSV
hsv(15, 43%, 78%)
LAB
lab(61.99% 22.44 21.46)
LCH
lch(61.99% 31.05 43.72)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 33%, 43%, 22%)

Etymology

Lined
adjective

Old English līne, line / cord — past-participle of line. As a color modifier, lined implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-supported quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-lined-and-supported textile-or-print surface. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and coordinated in usage.

Bruciato
noun

The Italian word for burnt — used in pigment vocabulary for terra di Siena bruciata (burnt sienna) and terra d'ombra bruciata (burnt umber). Bruciato implies a color that has been concentrated by heat. The color refers to a Sienese bruciato-pigment: a warm, slightly muted deep orange-brown with the matte finish of fired iron-oxide pigment.

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.

#c78671
Original
#968e6f
Protanopia
#a59b70
Deuteranopia
#d67c81
Tritanopia
#929292
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
2.97:1
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
7.08:1

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
##C78671
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7432 0.5365 0.4582)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.086

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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