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#774120

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Amber

RGB
119, 65, 32
HSL
23°, 58%, 30%
CMYK
0, 45, 73, 53
Luminance
0.0781

#774120 is a dark vivid orange, 23° on the wheel and 4/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.20:1). As text it scores 8.20:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(23 58% 30%)rgb(119 65 32)Base step 800AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #774120 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#774120
Hue
23°
orange
Saturation
58%
vivid
Lightness
30%
dark
Brightness
47%
HSV value
Perceived
32%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0781
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
4/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
8.20:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
36.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.435
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 22.1
Web-safe
#663333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue23° of 360°
Saturation58%
Lightness30%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #774120.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool4% 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
Red50%
Green48%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#774120
HEX (8-digit)#774120ff
RGBrgb(119, 65, 32)
RGBArgba(119, 65, 32, 1)
HSLhsl(23, 58%, 30%)
HSV / HSBhsv(23, 73%, 47%)
HWBhwb(23 13% 53%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 45%, 73%, 53%)
LABlab(33.6 20.4 29.7)
LCHlch(33.6 36.1 55.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.435 0.088 50.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(9.76, 7.81, 2.36)
Decimal7815456
Display P3color(display-p3 0.467 0.255 0.125)
Web-safe#663333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #774120;
background-color: #774120;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #774120;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#774120] bg-[#774120]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #774120;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.467, green: 0.255, blue: 0.125)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.467, green: 0.255, blue: 0.125, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#774120</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF774120)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF774120)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(32, 65, 119)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(119, 65, 32)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(119, 65, 32)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 119, 65, 32)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4667f, 0.2549f, 0.1255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{119,65,32}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #774120 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #774120 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#64371B, #EEDDD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #774120 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: #FBF7F4;
  --brand-100: #F7EEE9;
  --brand-200: #EFDACD;
  --brand-300: #E7BFA7;
  --brand-400: #DB9F7A;
  --brand-500: #CF7F4E;
  --brand-600: #C16934;
  --brand-700: #A1582B;
  --brand-800: #774120;
  --brand-900: #5E351D;
  --brand-950: #3B2112;
  --brand: #774120;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD1C0;
  --brand-hover: #5B3218;
  --brand-pressed: #3F2211;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EEDDD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF7F4',
        100: '#F7EEE9',
        200: '#EFDACD',
        300: '#E7BFA7',
        400: '#DB9F7A',
        500: '#CF7F4E',
        600: '#C16934',
        700: '#A1582B',
        800: '#774120',
        900: '#5E351D',
        950: '#3B2112',
        DEFAULT: '#774120',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF7F4,
  '100': #F7EEE9,
  '200': #EFDACD,
  '300': #E7BFA7,
  '400': #DB9F7A,
  '500': #CF7F4E,
  '600': #C16934,
  '700': #A1582B,
  '800': #774120,
  '900': #5E351D,
  '950': #3B2112,
);
$brand-base: #774120;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF7F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7EEE9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EFDACD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E7BFA7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DB9F7A", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CF7F4E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C16934", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A1582B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#774120", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5E351D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B2112", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #774120 · 8.20:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.20:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.56:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #774120 as text scores 8.20:1 on white and 2.56:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FAF0EB at 7.31:1.

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
#774120 · 8.20:1
AA on whitealready passes
#774120
The quick fox
#774120 · 8.20:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#774120
The quick fox
#AF602F · 4.54:1
AA on black+14% L
#AF602F
The quick fox
#D18455 · 7.14:1
AAA on black+28% L
#D18455

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #774120 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
#774120 on white: 8.20:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#774120 on black: 2.56:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #774120 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #774120.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.20:1AaAa
Slate 507.84:1AaAa
Slate 1007.48:1AaAa
Slate 2006.65:1AaAa
Slate 3005.52:1AaAa
Slate 4003.20:1AaAa
Slate 5001.72:1AaAa
Slate 6001.08:1AaAa
Slate 7001.26:1AaAa
Slate 8001.78:1AaAa
Slate 9002.18:1AaAa
Black2.56:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #50481C
deuteranopia · #5D5420
tritanopia · #82363A

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. #774120 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.

#FBF7F4
#F7EEE9
#EFDACD
#E7BFA7
#DB9F7A
#CF7F4E
#C16934
#A1582B
#774120
#5E351D
#3B2112
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FBF7F4Darkest = 950 · #3B2112Text 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 0.022 50.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.035 50.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.053 50.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.069 50.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.081 50.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.088 50.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.088 50.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.083 50.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.074 50.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.062 50.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.048 50.1);
}

Colors that work with #774120

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#EDD1C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B694B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1D6E7A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#64371B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAF0EB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#5B3218
One step down in lightness
Pressed#3F2211
Two steps down
Disabled#9F7D68
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#90481C
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 #774120

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
  • Weight70/100
  • 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#205677
Analogous left#77202A
Analogous right#776D20
Split-complement 1#20776D
Split-complement 2#202A77
Triadic 1#207741
Triadic 2#412077
Tetradic#2A7720
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°23°

#774120 sits at 23°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red46.7%
Green25.5%
Blue12.5%
R · 0–255
119
0x77
G · 0–255
65
0x41
B · 0–255
32
0x20

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta45.4%
Yellow73.1%
Key (black)53.3%

Total ink coverage is 172%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#774120 text on a black background

contrast 2.56:1

Card sample

#774120 text on a white background

contrast 8.20:1

Card sample

#774120 on grey

7.48:1

#774120 on its own surface

7.68:1

#774120 on its dark surface

2.08:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #774120;
Background color
Panel with #774120 background
background-color: #774120;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #774120;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(119, 65, 32, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(119, 65, 32, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #774120;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #774120, #737720);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #774120, #5D7720);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #774120;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #774120;
caret-color: #774120;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #774120;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAF0EB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #774120;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#774120 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #774120 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(119, 65, 32, 0.5)
rgb(119 65 32 / 50%)
#77412080
hsl(23 58% 30% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #774120 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7741201a#F1ECE9
20%#77412033#E4D9D2
40%#77412066#C9B3A6
60%#77412099#AD8D79
80%#774120cc#92674D

Gradients from #774120

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, #A75B2D, #774120 45%, #64371B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #774120, #565F1A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #774120, #205677);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BF6933 0%, #774120 45%, #64371B 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%, #9F2B42 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8F8B26 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #64371B 0%, transparent 65%), #774120;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #774120

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.

#774120 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 2.56:1 — lift it to #AF602F 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.

#774120, answered

What color is #774120?

#774120 is a dark vivid orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 23° on the hue wheel with 58% saturation and 30% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #774120?

rgb(119, 65, 32) — 119 red, 65 green and 32 blue out of 255, or 46.7% / 25.5% / 12.5% by channel.

What is #774120 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(23, 58%, 30%) and hsv(23, 73%, 47%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #774120 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0781 and perceived brightness is 32%, so white text on it reaches 8.20:1.

Should I use black or white text on #774120?

White. It scores 8.20:1 against #774120, versus 2.56:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #774120 accessible on a white background?

#774120 on white scores 8.20:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #774120?

#205677 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #20776D and #202A77, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #774120?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #EDD1C0 for borders, #9B694B for secondary text, #1D6E7A as an accent and #64371B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #77202A and #776D20 stays calm, while #205677 is the loudest partner.

What is #774120 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 45%, 73%, 53%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #774120 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 4 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #8B4F25; nudged cooler, #78201E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #774120?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 22.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #774120 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #774120 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#774120] or text-[#774120], 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 #774120 with 50% opacity?

rgba(119, 65, 32, 0.5), or #77412080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BBA090; over black, #3C2110.

Is #774120 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663333, ΔE2000 13.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #774120 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 #774120?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A75B2D, #774120 45%, #64371B). For more colour, a short hue run to #565F1A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #774120 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #774120 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.