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Organized Flame

#e2b1a0
Notes

Organized Flame (#E2B1A0) is a soft 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 (15°, 53%, 76%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#e2b1a0
RGB
rgb(226, 177, 160)
HSL
hsl(15, 53%, 76%)
HWB
hwb(15 63% 11%)
OKLCH
oklch(80.0% 0.062 40.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8562 0.7016 0.6381)
HSV
hsv(15, 29%, 89%)
LAB
lab(76.16% 15.40 15.52)
LCH
lch(76.16% 21.87 45.22)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 22%, 29%, 11%)

Etymology

Organized
adjective

Greek órganon, instrument / tool — past-participle of organize. As a color modifier, organized implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-systematic quality where the hue carries the visual register of well-coordinated-and-classified arrangement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to orderly and methodical in usage.

Flame
noun

The luminous combustion zone of a fire — the visible portion of incandescent gas, where temperature determines color. The orange of a wood flame sits around 1,100°C; hotter and it shifts to yellow, hotter still to white. The color is a saturated, slightly red orange with the suggestion of internal motion. Hotter than ember, brighter than rust, alive in a way pigment never quite captures.

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.

#e2b1a0
Original
#bdb69f
Protanopia
#c8c0a0
Deuteranopia
#eeaaac
Tritanopia
#bababa
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
1.90:1
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
11.03:1

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
##E2B1A0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8562 0.7016 0.6381)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.062

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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