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Jazzed Tigerlily

#f27f63
Notes

Jazzed Tigerlily (#F27F63) is a true 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 (12°, 85%, 67%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid 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 cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f27f63
RGB
rgb(242, 127, 99)
HSL
hsl(12, 85%, 67%)
HWB
hwb(12 39% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.0% 0.147 34.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8901 0.5217 0.4157)
HSV
hsv(12, 59%, 95%)
LAB
lab(65.72% 41.64 35.13)
LCH
lch(65.72% 54.48 40.15)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 48%, 59%, 5%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Tigerlily
noun

Lilium lancifolium, the East Asian lily named for the dark-spotted orange petals that suggested big-cat markings to Victorian gardeners. The color is the petal interior of a fully open tigerlily: a saturated, slightly red orange with the matte finish of bee-pollinated flower. Warmer than carrot, more chromatic than rust; the orange of a high-summer perennial bed.

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.

#f27f63
Original
#9c9060
Protanopia
#b8a961
Deuteranopia
#ff6b78
Tritanopia
#959595
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
2.63:1
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
7.99:1

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
##F27F63
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8901 0.5217 0.4157)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.147

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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