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Buttoned Teak

#e0a75c
Notes

Buttoned Teak (#E0A75C) 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 (34°, 68%, 62%) 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
#e0a75c
RGB
rgb(224, 167, 92)
HSL
hsl(34, 68%, 62%)
HWB
hwb(34 36% 12%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.7% 0.114 72.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8443 0.6639 0.4075)
HSV
hsv(34, 59%, 88%)
LAB
lab(72.40% 12.92 46.40)
LCH
lch(72.40% 48.17 74.44)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 25%, 59%, 12%)

Etymology

Buttoned
adjective

Old French bouton, button — past-participle of button. As a color modifier, buttoned implies a clear-and-fastened-and-formal quality, the crisp color of Edwardian-period formal-attire fully-fastened-and-formally-dressed gentleman's-attire. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and pressed in usage.

Teak
noun

Tectona grandis, the Southeast Asian hardwood prized for its weather-resistance and used in shipbuilding, decking, and the colonial-era furniture of British India. The color refers to a freshly oiled Burmese teak deck: a saturated, slightly warm deep gold-brown with the satin finish of natural-oil-rich hardwood. Warmer than oak, drier than mahogany.

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.

#e0a75c
Original
#bbaa55
Protanopia
#c9b75e
Deuteranopia
#f29996
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
2.13:1
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
9.85:1

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
##E0A75C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8443 0.6639 0.4075)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.114

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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