Apricot Velvet Vivid (#BA861C) belongs to the orange family — hue 40°, 74% 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.
:root { --colorarchive-apricot-velvet-vivid: #BA861C; --colorarchive-apricot-velvet-vivid-hsl: hsl(40, 74%, 42%); --colorarchive-apricot-velvet-vivid-rgb: rgb(186, 134, 28); }
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Use for creative tool brands and action-oriented interfaces. Orange buttons consistently outperform other colors in A/B tests for engagement.
Orange represents creativity and adventure. In the Netherlands, it's the national color. In Hinduism, it symbolizes purity.
Citrus, fire, and a color named after a fruit.
Orange is unusual: in English the color was named after the fruit, not the other way around — the fruit's name arrived in the 14th century, but until 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 — though cadmium is itself toxic.
In Hindu and Buddhist tradition saffron orange marks renunciation — the robe of Hindu sannyasis and of Theravada monks. 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.
Hermès orange is a brand asset traceable to a 1942 wartime cardboard shortage. Penguin Books color-coded its early paperbacks by genre — orange meant general fiction. Nickelodeon, Fanta, and easyJet all use orange, which reads playful and consumer-friendly while staying outside the more crowded red and yellow lanes. NASA's shuttle-era launch-and-entry suits were International Orange so rescue crews could spot astronauts after a bailout over the ocean.
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 a familiar modern film-grade pairing; the contrast between warm skin tones and cool shadows is engineered for it.
A vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.
Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where many identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.
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.
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Base: Apricot Velvet Vivid #BA861C Lighter companion: Apricot Core Vivid #D59920 Darker companion: Apricot Dusk Vivid #976C17 Complementary counterpoint: Cobalt Velvet Vivid #1C51BA Analogous lead: Citrine Velvet Vivid #BABA1C Analogous echo: Vermillion Velvet Vivid #BA431C Triadic +120°: Teal Velvet Vivid #1CBA86 Triadic +240°: Mulberry Velvet Vivid #861CBA Split-comp +150°: Cerulean Velvet Vivid #1CA0BA Split-comp +210°: Violet Velvet Vivid #361CBA
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