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Vermillion Tone Clear
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Vermillion Tone Clear

Orange · Hue 15
Hex
#D07D62
RGB
rgb(208, 125, 98)
HSL
hsl(15, 54%, 60%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 40%, 53%, 18%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
3.1:1AA Large
on black
6.8:1AA
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About this color

Vermillion Tone Clear (#D07D62) belongs to the orange family — hue 15°, 54% saturation, 60% 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-vermillion-tone-clear: #D07D62;
  --colorarchive-vermillion-tone-clear-hsl: hsl(15, 54%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-vermillion-tone-clear-rgb: rgb(208, 125, 98);
}

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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

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 clear, mid-saturation register is the most common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #D07D62.

  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Brick · #C96442
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Orange · #FF7262
    →
  • Canvasecondary
    Canva Pink · #FE6F61
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #D07D62.

  • Turkey (Istanbul)Apple Tea Amber
    #C77D4D · Çay glass tea, ubiquitous Istanbul tradition
    →
  • MexicoBarragán Earth Pink
    #D77176 · Casa Gilardi, Mexico City (1976)
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Sienese Ochre
    #C68F58 · Iron oxide earth, Siena region
    →

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
Vermillion Silk Clear
#D99781 · hsl(15, 54%, 68%)
Darker companion
Vermillion Radiant Clear
#C96A4A · hsl(15, 54%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Cerulean Tone Clear
#62BED0 · hsl(190, 54%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Apricot Tone Clear
#D0AB62 · hsl(40, 54%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Merlot Tone Clear
#D06274 · hsl(350, 54%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Mint Tone Clear
#62D074 · hsl(130, 54%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Violet Tone Clear
#7462D0 · hsl(250, 54%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Teal Tone Clear
#62D0AB · hsl(160, 54%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Cobalt Tone Clear
#6287D0 · hsl(220, 54%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Vermillion Tone Clear #D07D62
Lighter companion: Vermillion Silk Clear #D99781
Darker companion: Vermillion Radiant Clear #C96A4A
Complementary counterpoint: Cerulean Tone Clear #62BED0
Analogous lead: Apricot Tone Clear #D0AB62
Analogous echo: Merlot Tone Clear #D06274
Triadic +120°: Mint Tone Clear #62D074
Triadic +240°: Violet Tone Clear #7462D0
Split-comp +150°: Teal Tone Clear #62D0AB
Split-comp +210°: Cobalt Tone Clear #6287D0

Compare

See how Vermillion Tone Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsVermillion Silk ClearvsVermillion Radiant ClearvsCerulean Tone ClearvsApricot Tone ClearvsMerlot Tone ClearvsMint Tone Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Vermillion Radiant Clear
#C96A4A · hsl(15, 54%, 54%)
Nearby match
Ruby Tone Clear
#D07462 · hsl(10, 54%, 60%)
Nearby match
Ember Tone Clear
#D08762 · hsl(20, 54%, 60%)
Nearby match
Vermillion Silk Clear
#D99781 · hsl(15, 54%, 68%)
Nearby match
Vermillion Core Clear
#BC5938 · hsl(15, 54%, 48%)
Nearby match
Vermillion Tone Soft
#BC8876 · hsl(15, 34%, 60%)

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
AA5:1
Cerulean Ink Faint
#202627
AA4.9:1
Cerulean Ink Muted
#1D282A
AA4.8:1
Cerulean Ink Dust
#1A2A2D
AA4.7:1
Cerulean Ink Soft
#182C30
AA4.5:1
Cerulean Ink Clear
#103137
AA5:1
Azure Ink Faint
#202527

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#B7BC6B
Protanopia
#B2B269
Tritanopia
#CD6F70
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