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#514713

a deep, vivid yellow · warm · closest name: Dark Olive Green

Token name suggestion: Ink Brass

RGB
81, 71, 19
HSL
50°, 62%, 20%
CMYK
0, 12, 77, 68
Luminance
0.0630

#514713 is a deep vivid yellow, 50° on the wheel and 17/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (9.29:1). As text it scores 9.29:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Olive Green, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(50 62% 20%)rgb(81 71 19)Base step 900AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #514713 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#514713
Hue
50°
yellow
Saturation
62%
vivid
Lightness
20%
deep
Brightness
32%
HSV value
Perceived
28%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0630
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
17/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
9.29:1
Closest name
Dark Olive Green
ΔE2000 15.2
Chroma
31.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.397
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 22.7
Web-safe
#663300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue50° of 360°
Saturation62%
Lightness20%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #514713.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool17% 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
Red28%
Green71%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#514713
HEX (8-digit)#514713ff
RGBrgb(81, 71, 19)
RGBArgba(81, 71, 19, 1)
HSLhsl(50, 62%, 20%)
HSV / HSBhsv(50, 77%, 32%)
HWBhwb(50 7% 68%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 12%, 77%, 68%)
LABlab(30.2 -2.5 31.3)
LCHlch(30.2 31.4 94.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.397 0.071 98.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(5.76, 6.30, 1.53)
Decimal5326611
Display P3color(display-p3 0.318 0.278 0.075)
Web-safe#663300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #514713;
background-color: #514713;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #514713;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#514713] bg-[#514713]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #514713;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.318, green: 0.278, blue: 0.075)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.318, green: 0.278, blue: 0.075, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#514713</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF514713)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF514713)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(19, 71, 81)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(81, 71, 19)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(81, 71, 19)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 81, 71, 19)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3176f, 0.2784f, 0.0745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{81,71,19}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #514713 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #514713 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#675A18, #EEEAD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #514713 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: #FBFAF4;
  --brand-100: #F7F5E8;
  --brand-200: #F0EACC;
  --brand-300: #EADEA4;
  --brand-400: #DFCE77;
  --brand-500: #D4BE49;
  --brand-600: #C6AE2F;
  --brand-700: #A59127;
  --brand-800: #84741F;
  --brand-900: #514713;
  --brand-950: #3C3510;
  --brand: #514713;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF9F4;
  --brand-border: #EDE5C0;
  --brand-hover: #342E0C;
  --brand-pressed: #171405;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #242214;
    --brand-ink: #EEEAD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBFAF4',
        100: '#F7F5E8',
        200: '#F0EACC',
        300: '#EADEA4',
        400: '#DFCE77',
        500: '#D4BE49',
        600: '#C6AE2F',
        700: '#A59127',
        800: '#84741F',
        900: '#514713',
        950: '#3C3510',
        DEFAULT: '#514713',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBFAF4,
  '100': #F7F5E8,
  '200': #F0EACC,
  '300': #EADEA4,
  '400': #DFCE77,
  '500': #D4BE49,
  '600': #C6AE2F,
  '700': #A59127,
  '800': #84741F,
  '900': #514713,
  '950': #3C3510,
);
$brand-base: #514713;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBFAF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7F5E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F0EACC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EADEA4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DFCE77", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D4BE49", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C6AE2F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A59127", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#84741F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#514713", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3C3510", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #514713 · 9.29:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 9.29:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.26:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #514713 as text scores 9.29:1 on white and 2.26:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FAF8EA at 8.71:1.

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
#514713 · 9.29:1
AA on whitealready passes
#514713
The quick fox
#514713 · 9.29:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#514713
The quick fox
#877620 · 4.64:1
AA on black+13% L
#877620
The quick fox
#AC9728 · 7.21:1
AAA on black+22% L
#AC9728

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #514713 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
#514713 on white: 9.29:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#514713 on black: 2.26:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #514713 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #514713.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White9.29:1AaAa
Slate 508.88:1AaAa
Slate 1008.48:1AaAa
Slate 2007.54:1AaAa
Slate 3006.26:1AaAa
Slate 4003.62:1AaAa
Slate 5001.95:1AaAa
Slate 6001.23:1AaAa
Slate 7001.11:1AaAa
Slate 8001.57:1AaAa
Slate 9001.92:1AaAa
Black2.26:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #4F450B
deuteranopia · #514916
tritanopia · #58413D

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. #514713 is pinned to step 900; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBFAF4
#F7F5E8
#F0EACC
#EADEA4
#DFCE77
#D4BE49
#C6AE2F
#A59127
#84741F
#514713
#3C3510
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FBFAF4Darkest = 950 · #3C3510Text step on white = 800
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 0.018 98.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.028 98.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.042 98.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.055 98.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.065 98.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.071 98.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.071 98.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.066 98.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.059 98.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.049 98.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.039 98.1);
}

Colors that work with #514713

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#FAF9F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDE5C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B8E4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#112C53
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#675A18
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAF8EA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#242214
Dark-mode background
Hover#342E0C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#171405
Two steps down
Disabled#817A53
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#685911
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #514713

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
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • 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.

optimisticalertcheap-and-cheerfulvisible

The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail.

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

Almost never passes contrast against white. Treat it as a surface or a marker, not as text.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight80/100
  • 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#131D51
Analogous left#512813
Analogous right#3C5113
Split-complement 1#133C51
Split-complement 2#281351
Triadic 1#135147
Triadic 2#471351
Tetradic#135128
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°50°

#514713 sits at 50°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red31.8%
Green27.8%
Blue7.5%
R · 0–255
81
0x51
G · 0–255
71
0x47
B · 0–255
19
0x13

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta12.3%
Yellow76.5%
Key (black)68.2%

Total ink coverage is 157%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#514713 text on a black background

contrast 2.26:1

Card sample

#514713 text on a white background

contrast 9.29:1

Card sample

#514713 on grey

8.48:1

#514713 on its own surface

8.81:1

#514713 on its dark surface

1.72:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #514713;
Background color
Panel with #514713 background
background-color: #514713;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #514713;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(81, 71, 19, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(81, 71, 19, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #514713;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #514713, #325113);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #514713, #225113);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #514713;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #514713;
caret-color: #514713;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #514713;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAF8EA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #514713;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#514713 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #514713 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(81, 71, 19, 0.5)
rgb(81 71 19 / 50%)
#51471380
hsl(50 62% 20% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #514713 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5147131a#EEEDE7
20%#51471333#DCDAD0
40%#51471366#B9B5A1
60%#51471399#979171
80%#514713cc#746C42

Gradients from #514713

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, #83721F, #514713 45%, #675A18);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #514713, #1F380D);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #514713, #131D51);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #9B8824 0%, #514713 45%, #675A18 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF9F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #7A351D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #486A19 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #675A18 0%, transparent 65%), #514713;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #514713

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.

#514713 in the real world

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

Industries
RetailLeisureEnergyWarning systems
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

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

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 2.26:1 — lift it to #877620 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.

#514713, answered

What color is #514713?

#514713 is a deep vivid yellow, closest to Dark Olive Green (ΔE2000 15.2). It sits at 50° on the hue wheel with 62% saturation and 20% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #514713?

rgb(81, 71, 19) — 81 red, 71 green and 19 blue out of 255, or 31.8% / 27.8% / 7.5% by channel.

What is #514713 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(50, 62%, 20%) and hsv(50, 77%, 32%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #514713 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0630 and perceived brightness is 28%, so white text on it reaches 9.29:1.

Should I use black or white text on #514713?

White. It scores 9.29:1 against #514713, versus 2.26:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #514713 accessible on a white background?

#514713 on white scores 9.29:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #514713?

#131D51 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #133C51 and #281351, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #514713?

For interface work: #FAF9F4 as the surface, #EDE5C0 for borders, #9B8E4B for secondary text, #112C53 as an accent and #675A18 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #512813 and #3C5113 stays calm, while #131D51 is the loudest partner.

What is #514713 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 12%, 77%, 68%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #514713 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 17 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #513313; nudged cooler, #455212.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #514713?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 22.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #514713 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #514713 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#514713] or text-[#514713], 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 #514713 with 50% opacity?

rgba(81, 71, 19, 0.5), or #51471380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A8A389; over black, #29240A.

Is #514713 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663300, ΔE2000 16.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #514713 mean?

As a yellow, it reads optimistic, alert, cheap-and-cheerful. The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #514713?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #83721F, #514713 45%, #675A18). For more colour, a short hue run to #1F380D keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #514713 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #514713 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.