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#44210f

a deep, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Maroon

Token name suggestion: Ink Amber

RGB
68, 33, 15
HSL
20°, 64%, 16%
CMYK
0, 52, 78, 73
Luminance
0.0235

#44210f is a deep vivid orange, 20° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (14.28:1). As text it scores 14.28:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Maroon, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(20 64% 16%)rgb(68 33 15)Base step 950AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #44210f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#44210f
Hue
20°
orange
Saturation
64%
vivid
Lightness
16%
deep
Brightness
27%
HSV value
Perceived
18%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0235
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
14.28:1
Closest name
Maroon
ΔE2000 15.3
Chroma
24.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.292
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 28.4
Web-safe
#333300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue20° of 360°
Saturation64%
Lightness16%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #44210f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool5% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red52%
Green46%
Blue1%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#44210f
HEX (8-digit)#44210fff
RGBrgb(68, 33, 15)
RGBArgba(68, 33, 15, 1)
HSLhsl(20, 64%, 16%)
HSV / HSBhsv(20, 78%, 27%)
HWBhwb(20 6% 73%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 52%, 78%, 73%)
LABlab(17.2 15.0 19.0)
LCHlch(17.2 24.2 51.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.292 0.061 46.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(3.01, 2.35, 0.75)
Decimal4464911
Display P3color(display-p3 0.267 0.129 0.059)
Web-safe#333300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #44210f;
background-color: #44210f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #44210f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#44210f] bg-[#44210f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #44210f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.267, green: 0.129, blue: 0.059)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.267, green: 0.129, blue: 0.059, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#44210F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF44210F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF44210F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(15, 33, 68)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(68, 33, 15)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(68, 33, 15)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 68, 33, 15)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2667f, 0.1294f, 0.0588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{68,33,15}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #44210f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #44210f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#683317, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #44210f h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FBF6F4;
  --brand-100: #F7EDE8;
  --brand-200: #F0D8CB;
  --brand-300: #EBBBA3;
  --brand-400: #E19A75;
  --brand-500: #D67847;
  --brand-600: #C9612C;
  --brand-700: #A75125;
  --brand-800: #86411D;
  --brand-900: #613219;
  --brand-950: #44210f;
  --brand: #44210f;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCFC0;
  --brand-hover: #271309;
  --brand-pressed: #0A0502;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF6F4',
        100: '#F7EDE8',
        200: '#F0D8CB',
        300: '#EBBBA3',
        400: '#E19A75',
        500: '#D67847',
        600: '#C9612C',
        700: '#A75125',
        800: '#86411D',
        900: '#613219',
        950: '#44210f',
        DEFAULT: '#44210f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF6F4,
  '100': #F7EDE8,
  '200': #F0D8CB,
  '300': #EBBBA3,
  '400': #E19A75,
  '500': #D67847,
  '600': #C9612C,
  '700': #A75125,
  '800': #86411D,
  '900': #613219,
  '950': #44210f,
);
$brand-base: #44210f;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF6F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7EDE8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F0D8CB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EBBBA3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E19A75", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D67847", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C9612C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A75125", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#86411D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#613219", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#44210f", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #44210f · 14.28:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 14.28:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.47:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #44210f as text scores 14.28:1 on white and 1.47:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FAF0EA at 12.73:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#44210f · 14.28:1
AA on whitealready passes
#44210f
The quick fox
#44210f · 14.28:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#44210f
The quick fox
#B95A29 · 4.56:1
AA on black+28% L
#B95A29
The quick fox
#D97F51 · 7.10:1
AAA on black+42% L
#D97F51

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #44210F is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#44210f on white: 14.28:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#44210f on black: 1.47:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #44210f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #44210f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White14.28:1AaAa
Slate 5013.65:1AaAa
Slate 10013.04:1AaAa
Slate 20011.59:1AaAa
Slate 3009.62:1AaAa
Slate 4005.57:1AaAa
Slate 5003.00:1AaAa
Slate 6001.88:1AaAa
Slate 7001.38:1AaAa
Slate 8001.02:1AaAa
Slate 9001.25:1AaAa
Black1.47:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #2B260D
deuteranopia · #332D0F
tritanopia · #4B1A1D

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #44210f is pinned to step 950; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF6F4
#F7EDE8
#F0D8CB
#EBBBA3
#E19A75
#D67847
#C9612C
#A75125
#86411D
#613219
#44210f
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #FBF6F4Darkest = 950 · #44210fText step on white = 700
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.015 46.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 46.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.036 46.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.047 46.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.056 46.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.061 46.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.061 46.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.057 46.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.051 46.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.043 46.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 46.4);
}

Colors that work with #44210f

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#FAF6F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDCFC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B664B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0D4146
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#683317
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAF0EA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#271309
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0A0502
Two steps down
Disabled#775B4C
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#5A280E
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #44210f

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

friendlyenergeticaffordablesocial

Orange is red with the aggression taken out — approachable, active, and strongly associated with buying and doing.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Hard to make feel premium, and it collides with the "caution" band in status systems.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight84/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#0F3244
Analogous left#440F18
Analogous right#443C0F
Split-complement 1#0F443C
Split-complement 2#0F1844
Triadic 1#0F4421
Triadic 2#210F44
Tetradic#18440F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°20°

#44210f sits at 20°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red26.7%
Green12.9%
Blue5.9%
R · 0–255
68
0x44
G · 0–255
33
0x21
B · 0–255
15
0x0f

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta51.5%
Yellow77.9%
Key (black)73.3%

Total ink coverage is 203%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#44210f text on a black background

contrast 1.47:1

Card sample

#44210f text on a white background

contrast 14.28:1

Card sample

#44210f on grey

13.04:1

#44210f on its own surface

13.30:1

#44210f on its dark surface

1.20:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #44210f;
Background color
Panel with #44210f background
background-color: #44210f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #44210f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(68, 33, 15, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(68, 33, 15, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #44210f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #44210f, #44440F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #44210f, #36440F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #44210f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #44210f;
caret-color: #44210f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #44210f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAF0EA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #44210f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#44210f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #44210f over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(68, 33, 15, 0.5)
rgb(68 33 15 / 50%)
#44210f80
hsl(20 64% 16% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #44210f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#44210f1a#ECE9E7
20%#44210f33#DAD3CF
40%#44210f66#B4A69F
60%#44210f99#8F7A6F
80%#44210fcc#694D3F

Gradients from #44210f

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #76391A, #44210f 45%, #683317);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #44210f, #282B09);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #44210f, #0F3244);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8F4620 0%, #44210f 45%, #683317 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF6F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #6E182D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5D5815 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #683317 0%, transparent 65%), #44210f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #44210f

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#44210f in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
E-commerceFood deliveryLogisticsCreator tools
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.47:1 — lift it to #B95A29 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#44210f, answered

What color is #44210f?

#44210f is a deep vivid orange, closest to Maroon (ΔE2000 15.3). It sits at 20° on the hue wheel with 64% saturation and 16% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #44210f?

rgb(68, 33, 15) — 68 red, 33 green and 15 blue out of 255, or 26.7% / 12.9% / 5.9% by channel.

What is #44210f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(20, 64%, 16%) and hsv(20, 78%, 27%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #44210f a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0235 and perceived brightness is 18%, so white text on it reaches 14.28:1.

Should I use black or white text on #44210f?

White. It scores 14.28:1 against #44210f, versus 1.47:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #44210f accessible on a white background?

#44210f on white scores 14.28:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #44210f?

#0F3244 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0F443C and #0F1844, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #44210f?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCFC0 for borders, #9B664B for secondary text, #0D4146 as an accent and #683317 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #440F18 and #443C0F stays calm, while #0F3244 is the loudest partner.

What is #44210f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 52%, 78%, 73%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #44210f warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 5 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #593014; nudged cooler, #450E10.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #44210f?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 28.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #44210f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #44210f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#44210f] or text-[#44210f], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #44210f with 50% opacity?

rgba(68, 33, 15, 0.5), or #44210f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A29087; over black, #221108.

Is #44210f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #333300, ΔE2000 21 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #44210f mean?

As a orange, it reads friendly, energetic, affordable. Orange is red with the aggression taken out — approachable, active, and strongly associated with buying and doing. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #44210f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #76391A, #44210f 45%, #683317). For more colour, a short hue run to #282B09 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #44210f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #44210f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.