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Organized Toast

#cab97f
Notes

Organized Toast (#CAB97F) 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 (46°, 41%, 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#cab97f
RGB
rgb(202, 185, 127)
HSL
hsl(46, 41%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(46 50% 21%)
OKLCH
oklch(78.6% 0.078 93.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7809 0.7278 0.5255)
HSV
hsv(46, 37%, 79%)
LAB
lab(75.32% -2.37 31.65)
LCH
lch(75.32% 31.74 94.29)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 8%, 37%, 21%)

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.

Toast
noun

Sugar-and-protein browning in bread — the Maillard reaction at the surface of a slice held against radiant heat. The color refers to a piece of medium-toasted white bread: a soft, warm tan with the matte finish of a dehydrated crust. Lighter than caramel, drier than honey, with the breakfast-table familiarity of an everyday color.

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.

#cab97f
Original
#c5b67b
Protanopia
#c9bc81
Deuteranopia
#d5b0aa
Tritanopia
#b8b8b8
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
1.95:1
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
10.76:1

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
##CAB97F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7809 0.7278 0.5255)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.078

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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