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Resilient Marrakech

#df6621
Notes

Resilient Marrakech (#DF6621) is a true orange with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (22°, 75%, 50%) 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
#df6621
RGB
rgb(223, 102, 33)
HSL
hsl(22, 75%, 50%)
HWB
hwb(22 13% 13%)
OKLCH
oklch(64.9% 0.169 45.5)
HSV
hsv(22, 85%, 87%)
LAB
lab(57.37% 43.69 57.58)
LCH
lch(57.37% 72.28 52.81)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 54%, 85%, 13%)

Etymology

Resilient
adjective

Latin resiliēns, springing-back — present-participle of resilīre. As a color modifier, resilient implies a saturated-and-recovering-and-flexible quality where the hue maintains its strength under visual pressure. Sits at the bold-and-resilient end of the grid, parallel to tough and hardy in usage.

Marrakech
noun

The Moroccan city — its medieval walls limewashed in ocre rouge, the iron-rich earth that gives the city its nickname the Red City. Marrakech refers to the south-facing facade of the Koutoubia Mosque at sunset: a saturated, slightly muted deep orange-pink with the matte finish of clay-and-lime wall paint. Cooler than terracotta, warmer than copper.

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.

#df6621
Original
#897913
Protanopia
#a6941c
Deuteranopia
#f54a59
Tritanopia
#7b7b7b
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).
AA Largeon White
3.47:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
6.06:1

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