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#67482c

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Apricot

RGB
103, 72, 44
HSL
29°, 40%, 29%
CMYK
0, 30, 57, 60
Luminance
0.0770

#67482c is a dark soft orange, 29° on the wheel and 1/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.27:1). As text it scores 8.27:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(29 40% 29%)rgb(103 72 44)Base step 800AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #67482c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#67482c
Hue
29°
orange
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
29%
dark
Brightness
40%
HSV value
Perceived
31%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0770
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
1/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
8.27:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 10.8
Chroma
24.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.429
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 18.3
Web-safe
#663333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue29° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness29%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #67482c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool1% 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
Red37%
Green60%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#67482c
HEX (8-digit)#67482cff
RGBrgb(103, 72, 44)
RGBArgba(103, 72, 44, 1)
HSLhsl(29, 40%, 29%)
HSV / HSBhsv(28, 57%, 40%)
HWBhwb(29 17% 60%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 30%, 57%, 60%)
LABlab(33.4 9.7 21.9)
LCHlch(33.4 24.0 66.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.429 0.059 62.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(8.37, 7.70, 3.43)
Decimal6768684
Display P3color(display-p3 0.404 0.282 0.173)
Web-safe#663333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #67482c;
background-color: #67482c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #67482c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#67482c] bg-[#67482c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #67482c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.404, green: 0.282, blue: 0.173)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.404, green: 0.282, blue: 0.173, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#67482C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF67482C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF67482C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(44, 72, 103)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(103, 72, 44)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(103, 72, 44)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 103, 72, 44)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4039f, 0.2824f, 0.1725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{103,72,44}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #67482c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #67482c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#593E26, #EDE0D4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #67482c 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: #FAF7F5;
  --brand-100: #F4EFEB;
  --brand-200: #EADDD2;
  --brand-300: #DDC6B0;
  --brand-400: #CDA989;
  --brand-500: #BC8D62;
  --brand-600: #AB7849;
  --brand-700: #8F643D;
  --brand-800: #67482c;
  --brand-900: #543C27;
  --brand-950: #342618;
  --brand: #67482c;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #E7D5C6;
  --brand-hover: #4E3621;
  --brand-pressed: #352517;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241C14;
    --brand-ink: #EDE0D4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF7F5',
        100: '#F4EFEB',
        200: '#EADDD2',
        300: '#DDC6B0',
        400: '#CDA989',
        500: '#BC8D62',
        600: '#AB7849',
        700: '#8F643D',
        800: '#67482c',
        900: '#543C27',
        950: '#342618',
        DEFAULT: '#67482c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF7F5,
  '100': #F4EFEB,
  '200': #EADDD2,
  '300': #DDC6B0,
  '400': #CDA989,
  '500': #BC8D62,
  '600': #AB7849,
  '700': #8F643D,
  '800': #67482c,
  '900': #543C27,
  '950': #342618,
);
$brand-base: #67482c;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF7F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4EFEB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EADDD2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DDC6B0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CDA989", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BC8D62", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#AB7849", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8F643D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#67482c", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#543C27", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#342618", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #67482c · 8.27:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.27:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.54:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #67482c as text scores 8.27:1 on white and 2.54:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7F2ED at 7.43:1.

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
#67482c · 8.27:1
AA on whitealready passes
#67482c
The quick fox
#67482c · 8.27:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#67482c
The quick fox
#996B41 · 4.53:1
AA on black+14% L
#996B41
The quick fox
#BB8C61 · 7.04:1
AAA on black+27% L
#BB8C61

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #67482C 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
#67482c on white: 8.27:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#67482c on black: 2.54:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #67482c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #67482c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.27:1AaAa
Slate 507.90:1AaAa
Slate 1007.55:1AaAa
Slate 2006.71:1AaAa
Slate 3005.57:1AaAa
Slate 4003.22:1AaAa
Slate 5001.74:1AaAa
Slate 6001.09:1AaAa
Slate 7001.25:1AaAa
Slate 8001.77:1AaAa
Slate 9002.16:1AaAa
Black2.54:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #524A2A
deuteranopia · #59512C
tritanopia · #704141

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. #67482c is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAF7F5
#F4EFEB
#EADDD2
#DDC6B0
#CDA989
#BC8D62
#AB7849
#8F643D
#67482c
#543C27
#342618
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FAF7F5Darkest = 950 · #342618Text 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 62.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 62.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.036 62.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.046 62.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.055 62.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.059 62.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.059 62.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.056 62.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.050 62.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.042 62.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 62.3);
}

Colors that work with #67482c

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#FAF7F4
Tinted page background
Border#E7D5C6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B714B
Captions on the surface
Accent#295B6A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#593E26
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7F2ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241C14
Dark-mode background
Hover#4E3621
One step down in lightness
Pressed#352517
Two steps down
Disabled#9D8066
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7E522A
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 #67482c

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
  • Weight71/100
  • 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#2C4B67
Analogous left#672C2D
Analogous right#67652C
Split-complement 1#2C6765
Split-complement 2#2C2D67
Triadic 1#2C6748
Triadic 2#482C67
Tetradic#2D672C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°29°

#67482c sits at 29°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red40.4%
Green28.2%
Blue17.3%
R · 0–255
103
0x67
G · 0–255
72
0x48
B · 0–255
44
0x2c

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta30.1%
Yellow57.3%
Key (black)59.6%

Total ink coverage is 147%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#67482c text on a black background

contrast 2.54:1

Card sample

#67482c text on a white background

contrast 8.27:1

Card sample

#67482c on grey

7.55:1

#67482c on its own surface

7.75:1

#67482c on its dark surface

2.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #67482c;
Background color
Panel with #67482c background
background-color: #67482c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #67482c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(103, 72, 44, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(103, 72, 44, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #67482c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #67482c, #5F672C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #67482c, #50672C);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #67482c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #67482c;
caret-color: #67482c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #67482c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7F2ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #67482c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#67482c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #67482c 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(103, 72, 44, 0.5)
rgb(103 72 44 / 50%)
#67482c80
hsl(29 40% 29% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #67482c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#67482c1a#F0EDEA
20%#67482c33#E1DAD5
40%#67482c66#C2B6AB
60%#67482c99#A49180
80%#67482ccc#856D56

Gradients from #67482c

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, #92663E, #67482c 45%, #593E26);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #67482c, #475123);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #67482c, #2C4B67);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A77547 0%, #67482c 45%, #593E26 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #8B3B44 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #787C35 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #593E26 0%, transparent 65%), #67482c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #67482c

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.

#67482c 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 2.54:1 — lift it to #996B41 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.

#67482c, answered

What color is #67482c?

#67482c is a dark soft orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 10.8). It sits at 29° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 29% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #67482c?

rgb(103, 72, 44) — 103 red, 72 green and 44 blue out of 255, or 40.4% / 28.2% / 17.3% by channel.

What is #67482c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(29, 40%, 29%) and hsv(28, 57%, 40%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #67482c a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0770 and perceived brightness is 31%, so white text on it reaches 8.27:1.

Should I use black or white text on #67482c?

White. It scores 8.27:1 against #67482c, versus 2.54:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #67482c accessible on a white background?

#67482c on white scores 8.27:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #67482c?

#2C4B67 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2C6765 and #2C2D67, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #67482c?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #E7D5C6 for borders, #9B714B for secondary text, #295B6A as an accent and #593E26 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #672C2D and #67652C stays calm, while #2C4B67 is the loudest partner.

What is #67482c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 30%, 57%, 60%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #67482c warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 1 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #795234; nudged cooler, #68312B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #67482c?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 18.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #67482c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #67482c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#67482c] or text-[#67482c], 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 #67482c with 50% opacity?

rgba(103, 72, 44, 0.5), or #67482c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B3A496; over black, #342416.

Is #67482c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663333, ΔE2000 15.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #67482c 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 #67482c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #92663E, #67482c 45%, #593E26). For more colour, a short hue run to #475123 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #67482c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #67482c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.