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Untroubled Etrusca

#cdaa7d
Notes

Untroubled Etrusca (#CDAA7D) 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 (34°, 44%, 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#cdaa7d
RGB
rgb(205, 170, 125)
HSL
hsl(34, 44%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(34 49% 20%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.9% 0.073 73.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7818 0.6718 0.5130)
HSV
hsv(34, 39%, 80%)
LAB
lab(71.70% 6.58 27.99)
LCH
lch(71.70% 28.75 76.76)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 17%, 39%, 20%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Etrusca
noun

Of the Etruscans — the pre-Roman civilization of central Italy whose tomb paintings and bucchero pottery established a Mediterranean ochre-and-black color palette. Etrusca refers to a Tarquinian tomb painting's earth-pigment: a soft, slightly muted warm tan with the matte finish of iron-oxide pigment in lime plaster.

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.

#cdaa7d
Original
#b7ab7a
Protanopia
#bfb37e
Deuteranopia
#daa19e
Tritanopia
#aeaeae
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
2.18:1
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
9.64:1

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
##CDAA7D
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7818 0.6718 0.5130)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.073

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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