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Vibrant Egypt

#dab237
Notes

Vibrant Egypt (#DAB237) is a true amber with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (45°, 69%, 54%) 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
#dab237
RGB
rgb(218, 178, 55)
HSL
hsl(45, 69%, 54%)
HWB
hwb(45 22% 15%)
OKLCH
oklch(77.9% 0.142 90.0)
HSV
hsv(45, 75%, 85%)
LAB
lab(74.21% 2.39 64.42)
LCH
lch(74.21% 64.46 87.87)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 18%, 75%, 15%)

Etymology

Vibrant
adjective

From the Latin vibrare, to shake — used as a color word since the seventeenth century for hues that read as alive and resonant. Vibrant orange, vibrant green: the implication is saturation combined with the optical impression of slight motion or energy. Sits at the bright-bucket center alongside vivid and lively.

Egypt
noun

The civilization that established the Western world's earliest sustained color vocabulary — and the warm yellow-tan of Egyptian sandstone, the gold of Tutankhamun's death mask, and the ochre of pharaonic tomb painting. Egypt refers to the desert sand of the Theban necropolis at dawn: a saturated, slightly cool warm yellow-tan with the matte finish of windblown quartz.

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.

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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.

#dab237
Original
#c6b022
Protanopia
#d0bb3e
Deuteranopia
#eca39a
Tritanopia
#b2b2b2
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
2.02:1
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
10.40:1

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