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Orderly Flamingo

#f190ae
Notes

Orderly Flamingo (#F190AE) 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 (341°, 78%, 75%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f190ae
RGB
rgb(241, 144, 174)
HSL
hsl(341, 78%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(341 56% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.3% 0.122 0.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8927 0.5828 0.6804)
HSV
hsv(341, 40%, 95%)
LAB
lab(70.67% 40.26 0.18)
LCH
lch(70.67% 40.26 0.26)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 40%, 28%, 5%)

Etymology

Orderly
adjective

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Flamingo
noun

The genus Phoenicopterus — wading birds whose pink-orange plumage comes from carotenoid pigments in the brine shrimp and algae they eat. The color refers to a Caribbean flamingo's neck plumage: a soft, slightly cool pink-orange with the matte finish of dietary-pigmented feathers. Cooler than coral, warmer than salmon.

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.

#f190ae
Original
#9ea2af
Protanopia
#b6b4ac
Deuteranopia
#ff8a9b
Tritanopia
#a7a7a7
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
2.25:1
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
9.34:1

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
##F190AE
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8927 0.5828 0.6804)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.122

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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