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orange · warm

#564222

a deep, soft orange · warm · closest name: Saddle Brown

Token name suggestion: Cellar Clay

RGB
86, 66, 34
HSL
37°, 43%, 24%
CMYK
0, 23, 61, 66
Luminance
0.0599

#564222 is a deep soft orange, 37° on the wheel and 6/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (9.55:1). As text it scores 9.55:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(37 43% 24%)rgb(86 66 34)Base step 900AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #564222 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#564222
Hue
37°
orange
Saturation
43%
soft
Lightness
24%
deep
Brightness
34%
HSV value
Perceived
27%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0599
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
6/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
9.55:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 15.5
Chroma
23.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.393
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 20.1
Web-safe
#663333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue37° of 360°
Saturation43%
Lightness24%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #564222.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool6% 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
Red33%
Green65%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#564222
HEX (8-digit)#564222ff
RGBrgb(86, 66, 34)
RGBArgba(86, 66, 34, 1)
HSLhsl(37, 43%, 24%)
HSV / HSBhsv(37, 60%, 34%)
HWBhwb(37 13% 66%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 23%, 61%, 66%)
LABlab(29.4 4.3 22.6)
LCHlch(29.4 23.0 79.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.393 0.055 77.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(6.07, 5.99, 2.35)
Decimal5653026
Display P3color(display-p3 0.337 0.259 0.133)
Web-safe#663333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #564222;
background-color: #564222;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #564222;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#564222] bg-[#564222]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #564222;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.337, green: 0.259, blue: 0.133)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.337, green: 0.259, blue: 0.133, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#564222</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF564222)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF564222)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(34, 66, 86)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(86, 66, 34)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(86, 66, 34)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 86, 66, 34)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3373f, 0.2588f, 0.1333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{86,66,34}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #564222 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #564222 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5B4624, #EEE3D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #564222 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: #FAF8F5;
  --brand-100: #F5F1EB;
  --brand-200: #EAE1D1;
  --brand-300: #DFCCAF;
  --brand-400: #CFB386;
  --brand-500: #BF9A5E;
  --brand-600: #AF8745;
  --brand-700: #92703A;
  --brand-800: #755A2E;
  --brand-900: #564222;
  --brand-950: #352A17;
  --brand: #564222;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-border: #E8DAC5;
  --brand-hover: #3C2E18;
  --brand-pressed: #231B0E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241E14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE3D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF8F5',
        100: '#F5F1EB',
        200: '#EAE1D1',
        300: '#DFCCAF',
        400: '#CFB386',
        500: '#BF9A5E',
        600: '#AF8745',
        700: '#92703A',
        800: '#755A2E',
        900: '#564222',
        950: '#352A17',
        DEFAULT: '#564222',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF8F5,
  '100': #F5F1EB,
  '200': #EAE1D1,
  '300': #DFCCAF,
  '400': #CFB386,
  '500': #BF9A5E,
  '600': #AF8745,
  '700': #92703A,
  '800': #755A2E,
  '900': #564222,
  '950': #352A17,
);
$brand-base: #564222;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF8F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5F1EB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EAE1D1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DFCCAF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CFB386", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BF9A5E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#AF8745", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#92703A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#755A2E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#564222", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#352A17", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #564222 · 9.55:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 9.55:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.20:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #564222 as text scores 9.55:1 on white and 2.20:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F8F4ED 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
#564222 · 9.55:1
AA on whitealready passes
#564222
The quick fox
#564222 · 9.55:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#564222
The quick fox
#906F39 · 4.52:1
AA on black+16% L
#906F39
The quick fox
#B9904E · 7.16:1
AAA on black+28% L
#B9904E

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #564222 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
#564222 on white: 9.55:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#564222 on black: 2.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #564222 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #564222.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White9.55:1AaAa
Slate 509.13:1AaAa
Slate 1008.72:1AaAa
Slate 2007.75:1AaAa
Slate 3006.43:1AaAa
Slate 4003.73:1AaAa
Slate 5002.01:1AaAa
Slate 6001.26:1AaAa
Slate 7001.08:1AaAa
Slate 8001.53:1AaAa
Slate 9001.87:1AaAa
Black2.20:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #4A421F
deuteranopia · #4F4723
tritanopia · #5D3C3A

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. #564222 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.

#FAF8F5
#F5F1EB
#EAE1D1
#DFCCAF
#CFB386
#BF9A5E
#AF8745
#92703A
#755A2E
#564222
#352A17
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FAF8F5Darkest = 950 · #352A17Text 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 0.014 77.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.022 77.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.033 77.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.043 77.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.050 77.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.055 77.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.055 77.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.051 77.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.046 77.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.038 77.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.030 77.8);
}

Colors that work with #564222

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#FAF8F4
Tinted page background
Border#E8DAC5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B7C4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#204458
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5B4624
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8F4ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241E14
Dark-mode background
Hover#3C2E18
One step down in lightness
Pressed#231B0E
Two steps down
Disabled#8E7A5A
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#6C4F21
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
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How to use #564222

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • 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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • Weight77/100
  • 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#223656
Analogous left#562822
Analogous right#505622
Split-complement 1#225056
Split-complement 2#282256
Triadic 1#225642
Triadic 2#422256
Tetradic#225628
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°37°

#564222 sits at 37°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red33.7%
Green25.9%
Blue13.3%
R · 0–255
86
0x56
G · 0–255
66
0x42
B · 0–255
34
0x22

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta23.3%
Yellow60.5%
Key (black)66.3%

Total ink coverage is 150%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#564222 text on a black background

contrast 2.20:1

Card sample

#564222 text on a white background

contrast 9.55:1

Card sample

#564222 on grey

8.72:1

#564222 on its own surface

9.01:1

#564222 on its dark surface

1.73:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #564222;
Background color
Panel with #564222 background
background-color: #564222;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #564222;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(86, 66, 34, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(86, 66, 34, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #564222;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #564222, #475622);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #564222, #3A5622);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #564222;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #564222;
caret-color: #564222;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #564222;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8F4ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #564222;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#564222 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #564222 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(86, 66, 34, 0.5)
rgb(86 66 34 / 50%)
#56422280
hsl(37 43% 24% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #564222 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5642221a#EEECE9
20%#56422233#DDD9D3
40%#56422266#BBB3A7
60%#56422299#9A8E7A
80%#564222cc#78684E

Gradients from #564222

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, #826433, #564222 45%, #5B4624);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #564222, #324019);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #564222, #223656);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #98743C 0%, #564222 45%, #5B4624 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF8F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #7A3330 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5F6C2B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5B4624 0%, transparent 65%), #564222;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #564222

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.

#564222 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

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 2.20:1 — lift it to #906F39 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.

#564222, answered

What color is #564222?

#564222 is a deep soft orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 15.5). It sits at 37° on the hue wheel with 43% saturation and 24% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #564222?

rgb(86, 66, 34) — 86 red, 66 green and 34 blue out of 255, or 33.7% / 25.9% / 13.3% by channel.

What is #564222 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(37, 43%, 24%) and hsv(37, 60%, 34%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #564222 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0599 and perceived brightness is 27%, so white text on it reaches 9.55:1.

Should I use black or white text on #564222?

White. It scores 9.55:1 against #564222, versus 2.20:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #564222 accessible on a white background?

#564222 on white scores 9.55:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #564222?

#223656 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #225056 and #282256, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #564222?

For interface work: #FAF8F4 as the surface, #E8DAC5 for borders, #9B7C4B for secondary text, #204458 as an accent and #5B4624 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #562822 and #505622 stays calm, while #223656 is the loudest partner.

What is #564222 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 23%, 61%, 66%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #564222 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 6 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #563A22; nudged cooler, #575621.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #564222?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 20.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #564222 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #564222 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#564222] or text-[#564222], 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 #564222 with 50% opacity?

rgba(86, 66, 34, 0.5), or #56422280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ABA191; over black, #2B2111.

Is #564222 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663333, ΔE2000 19.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #564222 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #564222?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #826433, #564222 45%, #5B4624). For more colour, a short hue run to #324019 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #564222 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #564222 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.