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#614721

a dark, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Saddle Brown

Token name suggestion: Shadow Marmalade

RGB
97, 71, 33
HSL
36°, 49%, 26%
CMYK
0, 27, 66, 62
Luminance
0.0716

#614721 is a dark vivid orange, 36° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.64:1). As text it scores 8.64:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(36 49% 26%)rgb(97 71 33)Base step 900AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #614721 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#614721
Hue
36°
orange
Saturation
49%
vivid
Lightness
26%
dark
Brightness
38%
HSV value
Perceived
30%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0716
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
8.64:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 12.9
Chroma
27.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.418
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 19.8
Web-safe
#663333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue36° of 360°
Saturation49%
Lightness26%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #614721.

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
Red36%
Green63%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#614721
HEX (8-digit)#614721ff
RGBrgb(97, 71, 33)
RGBArgba(97, 71, 33, 1)
HSLhsl(36, 49%, 26%)
HSV / HSBhsv(36, 66%, 38%)
HWBhwb(36 13% 62%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 27%, 66%, 62%)
LABlab(32.2 6.5 26.8)
LCHlch(32.2 27.5 76.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.418 0.064 74.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(7.46, 7.16, 2.43)
Decimal6375201
Display P3color(display-p3 0.380 0.278 0.129)
Web-safe#663333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #614721;
background-color: #614721;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #614721;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#614721] bg-[#614721]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #614721;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.380, green: 0.278, blue: 0.129)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.380, green: 0.278, blue: 0.129, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#614721</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF614721)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF614721)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(33, 71, 97)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(97, 71, 33)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(97, 71, 33)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 97, 71, 33)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3804f, 0.2784f, 0.1294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{97,71,33}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #614721 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #614721 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5F4620, #EEE3D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #614721 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: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-100: #F6F1EA;
  --brand-200: #ECE1CF;
  --brand-300: #E3CCAB;
  --brand-400: #D4B381;
  --brand-500: #C69958;
  --brand-600: #B7863E;
  --brand-700: #986F34;
  --brand-800: #7A5929;
  --brand-900: #614721;
  --brand-950: #382915;
  --brand: #614721;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-border: #EADAC2;
  --brand-hover: #463418;
  --brand-pressed: #2C200F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241E14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE3D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF8F4',
        100: '#F6F1EA',
        200: '#ECE1CF',
        300: '#E3CCAB',
        400: '#D4B381',
        500: '#C69958',
        600: '#B7863E',
        700: '#986F34',
        800: '#7A5929',
        900: '#614721',
        950: '#382915',
        DEFAULT: '#614721',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF8F4,
  '100': #F6F1EA,
  '200': #ECE1CF,
  '300': #E3CCAB,
  '400': #D4B381,
  '500': #C69958,
  '600': #B7863E,
  '700': #986F34,
  '800': #7A5929,
  '900': #614721,
  '950': #382915,
);
$brand-base: #614721;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF8F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6F1EA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ECE1CF", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E3CCAB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D4B381", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C69958", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B7863E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#986F34", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7A5929", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#614721", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#382915", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #614721 · 8.64:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.64:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.43:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #614721 as text scores 8.64:1 on white and 2.43:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F9F3EC at 7.84:1.

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
#614721 · 8.64:1
AA on whitealready passes
#614721
The quick fox
#614721 · 8.64:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#614721
The quick fox
#966E33 · 4.57:1
AA on black+14% L
#966E33
The quick fox
#BF8C43 · 7.05:1
AAA on black+25% L
#BF8C43

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #614721 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
#614721 on white: 8.64:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#614721 on black: 2.43:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #614721 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #614721.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.64:1AaAa
Slate 508.25:1AaAa
Slate 1007.88:1AaAa
Slate 2007.01:1AaAa
Slate 3005.82:1AaAa
Slate 4003.37:1AaAa
Slate 5001.81:1AaAa
Slate 6001.14:1AaAa
Slate 7001.20:1AaAa
Slate 8001.69:1AaAa
Slate 9002.07:1AaAa
Black2.43:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #51481D
deuteranopia · #574E22
tritanopia · #69403E

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. #614721 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.

#FAF8F4
#F6F1EA
#ECE1CF
#E3CCAB
#D4B381
#C69958
#B7863E
#986F34
#7A5929
#614721
#382915
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FAF8F4Darkest = 950 · #382915Text 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 0.016 74.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.026 74.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.039 74.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.050 74.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.059 74.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.064 74.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.064 74.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.061 74.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.054 74.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.045 74.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.035 74.8);
}

Colors that work with #614721

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#EADAC2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B7A4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1E4C64
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5F4620
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9F3EC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241E14
Dark-mode background
Hover#463418
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2C200F
Two steps down
Disabled#947E5E
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#78541F
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #614721

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
  • Weight75/100
  • 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#213B61
Analogous left#612721
Analogous right#5B6121
Split-complement 1#215B61
Split-complement 2#272161
Triadic 1#216147
Triadic 2#472161
Tetradic#216127
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°36°

#614721 sits at 36°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red38.0%
Green27.8%
Blue12.9%
R · 0–255
97
0x61
G · 0–255
71
0x47
B · 0–255
33
0x21

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta26.8%
Yellow66.0%
Key (black)62.0%

Total ink coverage is 155%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#614721 text on a black background

contrast 2.43:1

Card sample

#614721 text on a white background

contrast 8.64:1

Card sample

#614721 on grey

7.88:1

#614721 on its own surface

8.14:1

#614721 on its dark surface

1.91:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #614721;
Background color
Panel with #614721 background
background-color: #614721;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #614721;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(97, 71, 33, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(97, 71, 33, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #614721;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #614721, #506121);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #614721, #406121);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #614721;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #614721;
caret-color: #614721;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #614721;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9F3EC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #614721;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#614721 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #614721 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(97, 71, 33, 0.5)
rgb(97 71 33 / 50%)
#61472180
hsl(36 49% 26% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #614721 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#6147211a#EFEDE9
20%#61472133#DFDAD3
40%#61472166#C0B5A6
60%#61472199#A0917A
80%#614721cc#816C4D

Gradients from #614721

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, #8F6831, #614721 45%, #5F4620);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #614721, #394A19);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #614721, #213B61);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A67938 0%, #614721 45%, #5F4620 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%, #872F2E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #6A7829 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5F4620 0%, transparent 65%), #614721;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #614721

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.

#614721 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 2.43:1 — lift it to #966E33 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.

#614721, answered

What color is #614721?

#614721 is a dark vivid orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 12.9). It sits at 36° on the hue wheel with 49% saturation and 26% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #614721?

rgb(97, 71, 33) — 97 red, 71 green and 33 blue out of 255, or 38% / 27.8% / 12.9% by channel.

What is #614721 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(36, 49%, 26%) and hsv(36, 66%, 38%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #614721 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0716 and perceived brightness is 30%, so white text on it reaches 8.64:1.

Should I use black or white text on #614721?

White. It scores 8.64:1 against #614721, versus 2.43:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #614721 accessible on a white background?

#614721 on white scores 8.64:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #614721?

#213B61 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #215B61 and #272161, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #614721?

For interface work: #FAF8F4 as the surface, #EADAC2 for borders, #9B7A4B for secondary text, #1E4C64 as an accent and #5F4620 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #612721 and #5B6121 stays calm, while #213B61 is the loudest partner.

What is #614721 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 27%, 66%, 62%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #614721 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 #613F21; nudged cooler, #626020.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #614721?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 19.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #614721 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #614721 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#614721] or text-[#614721], 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 #614721 with 50% opacity?

rgba(97, 71, 33, 0.5), or #61472180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B0A390; over black, #312411.

Is #614721 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 #614721 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 #614721?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #8F6831, #614721 45%, #5F4620). For more colour, a short hue run to #394A19 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #614721 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #614721 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.