#C79A77a warm medium peach
#C79A77 in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more
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What kind of orange is #C79A77?
Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #C79A77's, measured rather than asserted.
#C79A77's Munsell numbers: hue 6.0YR, value 6.6 (how light), chroma 4.7 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block moderate yellowish pink, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 4.7 is low. This is a greyed, muted orange, nearer neutral than vivid, which is why it reads as a surface rather than an accent.
There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.
Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.
Shades of #C79A77, lighter and darker
For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #C79A77. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, peach-400.
Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)
Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)
Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)
Most tools mix. Rhapsody measures.
Paste any color. The whole system comes back, contrast-checked before you see it.
The window on the right was generated from #C79A77, like this whole page.
Is #C79A77 accessible? Contrast with white & black
Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #C79A77 clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.
Rows are text, columns are background · 60 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.
Ship the audit, not screenshots.
Run #C79A77 against the colors you actually ship, every pairing and any target, and export it: exact ratios, the AA tier, APCA, in one file.
The audit on the right was calibrated from #C79A77, like this whole page.
#C79A77 in CMYK: one value for files, one per press
Every held press standard prints this color exactly as it is.
In CMYK, #C79A77 is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.
On press (what each standard prints)
Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK held to prints the color exactly.
No surprises at the printer.
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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.
Colors similar to #C79A77
The wheel's warm pole sits near Pumpkin, its cool pole near Goluboy.
Named colors near this one: Chimaera Brown #C89B75 (via color-name-list) · Sweet Almond #CC9977 (via color-name-list) · Copper Moon #C29978 (via color-name-list) · Desert Carnation #C99C7D (via color-name-list) · Sonora Shade #C89672 (via color-name-list)
Colors that go with #C79A77
The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool medium blue #5779AD. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.
The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.
Take #C79A77 with you
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Your system is already built.
Rhapsody built it before you even asked: the scale, the neutrals, the utilities, every pairing calibrated.
This page's whole theme is built from one color. Palette does the same for yours: every step calibrated, every pairing checked, press included.
Every color on this page was calibrated, not mixed.
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