Ochre

Ochre (#CC7722) 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 (30°, 71%, 47%) 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. The warm yellow-brown of hydrated iron-oxide earth, the oldest pigment humans have used — found in 300,000-year-old hominid graves. Every continent except Antarctica has ochre deposits.

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