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Easy Burlap

#c79e7a
Notes

Easy Burlap (#C79E7A) 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 (28°, 41%, 63%) 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
#c79e7a
RGB
rgb(199, 158, 122)
HSL
hsl(28, 41%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(28 48% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.8% 0.069 62.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7551 0.6258 0.4975)
HSV
hsv(28, 39%, 78%)
LAB
lab(68.02% 10.31 24.60)
LCH
lch(68.02% 26.68 67.26)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 21%, 39%, 22%)

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.

Burlap
noun

A coarse fabric woven from jute or hemp fiber — used historically for sacking, packing, and rough farm-clothing. The color refers to undyed natural burlap: a soft, slightly muted warm tan with the textured matte finish of bast-fiber weave. Drier than hemp, warmer than canvas.

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.

#c79e7a
Original
#aba077
Protanopia
#b5a97b
Deuteranopia
#d49594
Tritanopia
#a4a4a4
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
2.44:1
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
8.60:1

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
##C79E7A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7551 0.6258 0.4975)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.069

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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