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Webby Tigerlily

#cbac96
Notes

Webby Tigerlily (#CBAC96) 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 (25°, 34%, 69%) 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
#cbac96
RGB
rgb(203, 172, 150)
HSL
hsl(25, 34%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(25 59% 20%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.6% 0.047 57.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7763 0.6790 0.5993)
HSV
hsv(25, 26%, 80%)
LAB
lab(72.50% 7.91 15.51)
LCH
lch(72.50% 17.41 62.97)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 15%, 26%, 20%)

Etymology

Webby
adjective

Old English webb, web — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, webby implies a pale-and-network-and-thin-thread quality, the pale color of attic-and-cellar long-undisturbed cobweb-and-spider-silk thin-network-pattern dust-collected surface. Sits at the pale-and-thin end of the grid, parallel to cobwebby and gossamer in usage.

Tigerlily
noun

Lilium lancifolium, the East Asian lily named for the dark-spotted orange petals that suggested big-cat markings to Victorian gardeners. The color is the petal interior of a fully open tigerlily: a saturated, slightly red orange with the matte finish of bee-pollinated flower. Warmer than carrot, more chromatic than rust; the orange of a high-summer perennial bed.

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.

#cbac96
Original
#b5ae95
Protanopia
#bcb496
Deuteranopia
#d5a6a6
Tritanopia
#b1b1b1
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
2.13:1
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
9.88:1

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
##CBAC96
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7763 0.6790 0.5993)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.047

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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