Persimmon
#e59b34
Soft amber-orange with muted warmth for calmer highlights
About Persimmon
Persimmon feels like a ripe orange-peel slice that's turned down a notch from high-saturation yellows. It's lighter and less metallic than Kingpin Gold, and it doesn't have Nuclear Mango's sharper, fruit-bright punch. Compared with Lion King, Persimmon is more orange-leaning and more fresh than creamy-gold, so it reads food-cart warm instead of sunlit mango pulp.
I use it for snack and beverage packaging mockups where you want "citrus fruit" without tipping into traffic-orange, especially for ingredient callouts, flavor tabs, and thumbnail accents. It also lands well in dashboards and finance apps that need an upbeat yellow family highlight that stays readable beside off-whites. Pair it with espresso brown, deep charcoal, or near-black for clean separation, and watch adjacent very bright yellows so Persimmon stays the main character rather than getting flattened by glare.
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On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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