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Easy Mojave

#e6b3a4
Notes

Easy Mojave (#E6B3A4) is a soft red 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 (14°, 57%, 77%) 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
#e6b3a4
RGB
rgb(230, 179, 164)
HSL
hsl(14, 57%, 77%)
HWB
hwb(14 64% 10%)
OKLCH
oklch(80.9% 0.063 37.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8708 0.7098 0.6532)
HSV
hsv(14, 29%, 90%)
LAB
lab(77.13% 16.39 14.77)
LCH
lch(77.13% 22.06 42.03)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 22%, 29%, 10%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Mojave
noun

The Mojave Desert in southwestern North America — Joshua trees, salt flats, the deep orange-red of weathered Cadillac Range sandstone. Mojave as a color refers to a Mojave sunset over the Amargosa Range: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep orange with the optical clarity of high-altitude desert air. Drier than tangerine, warmer than pumpkin.

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.

#e6b3a4
Original
#bfb8a3
Protanopia
#cbc2a4
Deuteranopia
#f3acaf
Tritanopia
#bdbdbd
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
1.85:1
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
11.35:1

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
##E6B3A4
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8708 0.7098 0.6532)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.063

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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