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Apricot Dusk Pure
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Apricot Dusk Pure

Orange · Hue 40
Hex
#A67107
RGB
rgb(166, 113, 7)
HSL
hsl(40, 92%, 34%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 32%, 96%, 35%)
Metrics
S 92% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
4.2:1AA Large
on black
5:1AA
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About this color

Apricot Dusk Pure (#A67107) belongs to the orange family — hue 40°, 92% saturation, 34% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-apricot-dusk-pure: #A67107;
  --colorarchive-apricot-dusk-pure-hsl: hsl(40, 92%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-apricot-dusk-pure-rgb: rgb(166, 113, 7);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

EarthyArtisanalGrounded
Common in

Coffee & Bakery · Craft & Handmade · Outdoor Gear

Pairs well with

Olive green, warm cream, or slate gray for organic, natural palettes

Design tip

Great for artisanal brands and rustic interfaces. Combines well with textured backgrounds and serif typography.

Cultural context ▶

Burnt orange and terra cotta evoke earthiness, autumn, and craftsmanship. Popular in Southwestern and Mediterranean design.

Color Origins

Orange family

Citrus, fire, and the only color named after a fruit.

Heritage

Orange is unusual: in English the color was named after the fruit, not the other way around — before the fruit reached Europe in the 16th century, this hue was simply 'yellow-red'. Earlier pigments included realgar (toxic), saffron (priceless), and orpiment. Cadmium orange, introduced in the 19th century, gave painters from the Impressionists onward a stable, brilliant orange that didn't fade or poison.

Across cultures

In Hindu and Buddhist tradition saffron orange marks renunciation — the robe of monks across Theravada and Tibetan lineages. The Dutch House of Orange-Nassau gave the Netherlands a national identity color, still worn at football matches and on King's Day. In Ireland, orange is the Protestant counterpart to green's Catholic association — the country's flag literally encodes the divide. Halloween's orange-and-black is a 20th-century American invention that has since gone global.

In the wild

Hermès orange is a brand asset traceable to a 1942 wartime cardboard shortage. Penguin Books used orange-and-white spines as a class signal — fiction was always orange. Nickelodeon, Fanta, and easyJet all chose orange for the same reason: it reads playful and consumer-friendly while staying outside the more crowded red and yellow lanes. NASA flight suits use International Orange specifically because nothing in nature matches it, making astronauts maximally visible against any background.

How it reads

Orange is warm without the urgency of red. It signals appetite (used heavily in fast food), creativity, and approachability. At low saturation it becomes terracotta, rust, or apricot — earthy palettes for hospitality and craft. At high saturation it reads as a sport, energy drink, or warning hazard. Orange and teal is the most common modern film-grade pairing; the contrast between warm skin tones and cool shadows is engineered for it.

This particular tone

A jewel tone — saturated and dark at once. This is the register of velvet, deep enamel, and old-world luxury.

Lightness band: At this depth the hue starts behaving like a neutral — it can substitute for black in many contexts while still carrying a faint chromatic temperature. It pairs especially well with off-whites and warm metallics.

Saturation band: At this saturation the color is doing work. It reads as a brand statement, a sport accessory, or a UI signal. It should be used in small, deliberate doses against quieter neighbors; large fields at this saturation will exhaust the eye.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #A67107.

  • GitHubaccent
    Attention Yellow · #9A6700
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  • Notionaccent
    Default Brown · #9F6B53
    →
  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Brick · #C96442
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #A67107.

  • IndiaHenna Brown
    #8D5524 · Lawsonia inermis paste
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Terracotta Tile
    #B85B40 · Fired earthenware roof tiles
    →
  • BrazilSalvador Terracotta
    #B85B40 · Colonial Pelourinho district
    →

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Apricot Velvet Pure
#CE8C09 · hsl(40, 92%, 42%)
Darker companion
Apricot Shadow Pure
#895D06 · hsl(40, 92%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Cobalt Dusk Pure
#073CA6 · hsl(220, 92%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Citrine Dusk Pure
#A6A607 · hsl(60, 92%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Vermillion Dusk Pure
#A62F07 · hsl(15, 92%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Teal Dusk Pure
#07A671 · hsl(160, 92%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Mulberry Dusk Pure
#7107A6 · hsl(280, 92%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Cerulean Dusk Pure
#078CA6 · hsl(190, 92%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Violet Dusk Pure
#2207A6 · hsl(250, 92%, 34%)
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Base: Apricot Dusk Pure #A67107
Lighter companion: Apricot Velvet Pure #CE8C09
Darker companion: Apricot Shadow Pure #895D06
Complementary counterpoint: Cobalt Dusk Pure #073CA6
Analogous lead: Citrine Dusk Pure #A6A607
Analogous echo: Vermillion Dusk Pure #A62F07
Triadic +120°: Teal Dusk Pure #07A671
Triadic +240°: Mulberry Dusk Pure #7107A6
Split-comp +150°: Cerulean Dusk Pure #078CA6
Split-comp +210°: Violet Dusk Pure #2207A6

Compare

See how Apricot Dusk Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsApricot Velvet PurevsApricot Shadow PurevsCobalt Dusk PurevsCitrine Dusk PurevsVermillion Dusk PurevsTeal Dusk Pure

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Apricot Dusk Bright
#A06F0E · hsl(40, 84%, 34%)
Nearby match
Apricot Shadow Pure
#895D06 · hsl(40, 92%, 28%)
Nearby match
Saffron Dusk Pure
#A67F07 · hsl(45, 92%, 34%)
Nearby match
Apricot Velvet Pure
#CE8C09 · hsl(40, 92%, 42%)
Nearby match
Apricot Shadow Bright
#835B0B · hsl(40, 84%, 28%)
Nearby match
Apricot Dusk Vivid
#976C17 · hsl(40, 74%, 34%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AA4.5:1
Iris Ink Vivid
#09093E
AA4.5:1
Iris Ink Bright
#060642
AA4.5:1
Iris Ink Pure
#030345
AA4.5:1
Amethyst Ink Bright
#0B0642
AA4.5:1
Amethyst Ink Pure
#080345
AA4.5:1
Violet Ink Pure
#0E0345

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#959940
Protanopia
#929239
Tritanopia
#A44C50
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