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Stripped Oro

#e3caa2
Notes

Stripped Oro (#E3CAA2) is a soft amber 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 (37°, 54%, 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#e3caa2
RGB
rgb(227, 202, 162)
HSL
hsl(37, 54%, 76%)
HWB
hwb(37 64% 11%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.0% 0.060 79.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8738 0.7957 0.6537)
HSV
hsv(37, 29%, 89%)
LAB
lab(82.48% 2.83 23.21)
LCH
lch(82.48% 23.38 83.06)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 11%, 29%, 11%)

Etymology

Stripped
adjective

Old English stripian, to strip — past-participle of strip. As a color modifier, stripped implies a clear-and-bared-and-unornamented quality, the crisp color of Cistercian-and-Bauhaus anti-ornamental stripped-down architectural interior. Sits at the crisp-and-stripped end of the grid, parallel to spare and bare in usage.

Oro
noun

The Spanish and Italian word for gold — used in heraldic vocabulary, religious art, and fashion for the metallic warm yellow of Renaissance gilding. The color refers to a freshly gilded Spanish altarpiece: a saturated, slightly cool deep gold with the metallic finish of beaten gold leaf. The Romance-language cousin of jīn and kogane.

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.

#e3caa2
Original
#d5ca9f
Protanopia
#dbd0a3
Deuteranopia
#eec3bf
Tritanopia
#cccccc
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
1.59:1
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
13.24:1

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
##E3CAA2
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8738 0.7957 0.6537)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.060

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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