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Coral Velvet Muted
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Coral Velvet Muted

Orange · Hue 30
Hex
#7E6B58
RGB
rgb(126, 107, 88)
HSL
hsl(30, 18%, 42%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 15%, 30%, 51%)
Metrics
S 18% · L 42%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
5.1:1AA
on black
4.1:1AA Large
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About this color

Coral Velvet Muted (#7E6B58) belongs to the orange family — hue 30°, 18% saturation, 42% 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-coral-velvet-muted: #7E6B58;
  --colorarchive-coral-velvet-muted-hsl: hsl(30, 18%, 42%);
  --colorarchive-coral-velvet-muted-rgb: rgb(126, 107, 88);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

CreativeAdventurousConfident
Common in

Technology · Sports · Travel

Pairs well with

Deep blue for trust + energy balance, dark gray for modern tech aesthetics

Design tip

Use for creative tool brands and action-oriented interfaces. Orange buttons consistently outperform other colors in A/B tests for engagement.

Cultural context ▶

Orange represents creativity and adventure. In the Netherlands, it's the national color. In Hinduism, it symbolizes purity.

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 grounded mid-tone — sober, considered, well-suited to body text accents, editorial layouts, or any context where restraint reads as quality.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where most identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #7E6B58.

  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • GitHubaccent
    Attention Yellow · #9A6700
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #7E6B58.

  • IcelandLopapeysa Sheep Brown
    #7C5A3A · Natural-dye Icelandic wool
    →
  • France (Paris)Zinc Roof Grey
    #5E6566 · Oxidized zinc roof tiles, central Paris
    →
  • IrelandAtlantic Slate
    #5A6770 · Cliff face + winter sea
    →

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
Coral Core Muted
#907A64 · hsl(30, 18%, 48%)
Darker companion
Coral Dusk Muted
#665747 · hsl(30, 18%, 34%)
Complementary counterpoint
Sapphire Velvet Muted
#586B7E · hsl(210, 18%, 42%)
Analogous lead
Canary Velvet Muted
#7E7B58 · hsl(55, 18%, 42%)
Analogous echo
Scarlet Velvet Muted
#7E5B58 · hsl(5, 18%, 42%)
Triadic +120°
Jade Velvet Muted
#587E6B · hsl(150, 18%, 42%)
Triadic +240°
Plum Velvet Muted
#6B587E · hsl(270, 18%, 42%)
Split-comp +150°
Aqua Velvet Muted
#587E7E · hsl(180, 18%, 42%)
Split-comp +210°
Iris Velvet Muted
#58587E · hsl(240, 18%, 42%)
Export preview
Base: Coral Velvet Muted #7E6B58
Lighter companion: Coral Core Muted #907A64
Darker companion: Coral Dusk Muted #665747
Complementary counterpoint: Sapphire Velvet Muted #586B7E
Analogous lead: Canary Velvet Muted #7E7B58
Analogous echo: Scarlet Velvet Muted #7E5B58
Triadic +120°: Jade Velvet Muted #587E6B
Triadic +240°: Plum Velvet Muted #6B587E
Split-comp +150°: Aqua Velvet Muted #587E7E
Split-comp +210°: Iris Velvet Muted #58587E

Compare

See how Coral Velvet Muted compares side by side with related colors.

vsCoral Core MutedvsCoral Dusk MutedvsSapphire Velvet MutedvsCanary Velvet MutedvsScarlet Velvet MutedvsJade Velvet Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Coral Velvet Faint
#766B60 · hsl(30, 10%, 42%)
Nearby match
Coral Velvet Dust
#876B4F · hsl(30, 26%, 42%)
Nearby match
Coral Core Muted
#907A64 · hsl(30, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Warm Gray Velvet
#726B65 · hsl(30, 6%, 42%)
Nearby match
Tangerine Velvet Muted
#7E6858 · hsl(25, 18%, 42%)
Nearby match
Coral Dusk Muted
#665747 · hsl(30, 18%, 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
AA4.9:1
Sapphire Veil Faint
#F9FAFA
AA4.9:1
Sapphire Veil Muted
#F9FAFB
AA4.9:1
Sapphire Veil Dust
#F9FAFB
AA4.9:1
Sapphire Veil Soft
#F8FAFC
AA4.9:1
Sapphire Veil Clear
#F7FAFD
AA4.8:1
Sapphire Veil Vivid
#F6FAFE

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#77795E
Protanopia
#76765D
Tritanopia
#7D6162
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