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Neat Oro

#f4ca6b
Notes

Neat Oro (#F4CA6B) is a true 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 (42°, 86%, 69%) 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 azure. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f4ca6b
RGB
rgb(244, 202, 107)
HSL
hsl(42, 86%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(42 42% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.7% 0.123 85.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9304 0.7984 0.4755)
HSV
hsv(42, 56%, 96%)
LAB
lab(83.20% 3.91 52.34)
LCH
lch(83.20% 52.48 85.73)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 17%, 56%, 4%)

Etymology

Neat
adjective

Old French net, clean / pure — sharing root with Latin nitidus. As a color modifier, neat implies a clear-and-orderly quality where the hue carries the well-arranged visual register without clutter or excess. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to trim and tidy 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.

#f4ca6b
Original
#dec962
Protanopia
#e8d46e
Deuteranopia
#ffbcb4
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
1.55:1
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
13.51:1

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
##F4CA6B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9304 0.7984 0.4755)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.123

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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