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Patterned Ambra

#c7b29a
Notes

Patterned Ambra (#C7B29A) 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 (32°, 29%, 69%) places it in the muted 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
#c7b29a
RGB
rgb(199, 178, 154)
HSL
hsl(32, 29%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(32 60% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(77.5% 0.041 70.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7666 0.7010 0.6149)
HSV
hsv(32, 23%, 78%)
LAB
lab(73.75% 3.72 15.03)
LCH
lch(73.75% 15.48 76.09)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 11%, 23%, 22%)

Etymology

Patterned
adjective

Old French patron, pattern / model — past-participle of pattern. As a color modifier, patterned implies a pale-and-repeating-design-and-structured quality, the pale color of William-Morris-and-Liberty-of-London hand-block-printed-and-repeated decorative-and-structured pattern-design surface. Sits at the pale-and-soft end of the grid, parallel to marbled and figured in usage.

Ambra
noun

The Italian word for amber — likewise borrowed via Arabic. Ambra in Italian fashion vocabulary names a slightly warmer, deeper gold-orange than its Spanish cousin. The color refers to Sicilian amber on display in Catania: a warm, slightly translucent deep gold-orange with the optical depth of fossil resin.

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.

#c7b29a
Original
#bab299
Protanopia
#bfb79a
Deuteranopia
#cfadab
Tritanopia
#b5b5b5
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
2.05:1
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
10.26:1

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
##C7B29A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7666 0.7010 0.6149)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.041

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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