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Orderly Sangiovese

#ca8488
Notes

Orderly Sangiovese (#CA8488) is a true red 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 (357°, 40%, 65%) 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
#ca8488
RGB
rgb(202, 132, 136)
HSL
hsl(357, 40%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(357 52% 21%)
OKLCH
oklch(68.6% 0.087 15.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7527 0.5298 0.5381)
HSV
hsv(357, 35%, 79%)
LAB
lab(62.37% 27.45 9.03)
LCH
lch(62.37% 28.90 18.20)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 35%, 33%, 21%)

Etymology

Orderly
adjective

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Sangiovese
noun

The dominant red grape of central Italy — backbone of Chianti, Brunello, and Vino Nobile. The color refers to a young Brunello di Montalcino: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the optical complexity of well-aged Tuscan wine. Deeper than Chianti, cooler than Tempranillo.

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.

#ca8488
Original
#918f88
Protanopia
#a29c87
Deuteranopia
#d77d86
Tritanopia
#939393
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
2.93:1
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
7.17:1

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
##CA8488
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7527 0.5298 0.5381)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.087

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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