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Organized Jerusalem

#c7ac45
Notes

Organized Jerusalem (#C7AC45) is a true amber 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 (48°, 54%, 53%) 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#c7ac45
RGB
rgb(199, 172, 69)
HSL
hsl(48, 54%, 53%)
HWB
hwb(48 27% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(74.9% 0.125 94.4)
HSV
hsv(48, 65%, 78%)
LAB
lab(70.93% -1.92 54.85)
LCH
lch(70.93% 54.88 92.01)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 14%, 65%, 22%)

Etymology

Organized
adjective

Greek órganon, instrument / tool — past-participle of organize. As a color modifier, organized implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-systematic quality where the hue carries the visual register of well-coordinated-and-classified arrangement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to orderly and methodical in usage.

Jerusalem
noun

The cream-and-gold limestone — meleke — used in Jerusalem's Old City walls, religious sites, and modern Israeli construction. By city ordinance, all new buildings must be faced with Jerusalem stone. The color refers to a freshly cut Jerusalem-stone block: a soft, slightly cool warm cream-tan with the matte finish of porous Cretaceous limestone.

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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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.

#c7ac45
Original
#bda939
Protanopia
#c4b14a
Deuteranopia
#d69f96
Tritanopia
#aaaaaa
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
2.23:1
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
9.42:1

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