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#787348

a dark, soft yellow · warm · closest name: Dark Olive Green

Token name suggestion: Dusk Brass

RGB
120, 115, 72
HSL
54°, 25%, 38%
CMYK
0, 4, 40, 53
Luminance
0.1672

#787348 is a dark soft yellow, 54° on the wheel and 28/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.83:1). As text it scores 4.83:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Olive Green, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(54 25% 38%)rgb(120 115 72)Base step 700AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #787348 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#787348
Hue
54°
yellow
Saturation
25%
soft
Lightness
38%
dark
Brightness
47%
HSV value
Perceived
44%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1672
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
28/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
4.83:1
Closest name
Dark Olive Green
ΔE2000 10.5
Chroma
25.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.549
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 14.9
Web-safe
#666633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue54° of 360°
Saturation25%
Lightness38%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #787348.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool28% 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
Red24%
Green73%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#787348
HEX (8-digit)#787348ff
RGBrgb(120, 115, 72)
RGBArgba(120, 115, 72, 1)
HSLhsl(54, 25%, 38%)
HSV / HSBhsv(54, 40%, 47%)
HWBhwb(54 28% 53%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 4%, 40%, 53%)
LABlab(47.9 -5.0 24.5)
LCHlch(47.9 25.0 101.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.549 0.061 102.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(15.05, 16.72, 8.56)
Decimal7893832
Display P3color(display-p3 0.471 0.451 0.282)
Web-safe#666633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #787348;
background-color: #787348;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #787348;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#787348] bg-[#787348]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #787348;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.471, green: 0.451, blue: 0.282)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.471, green: 0.451, blue: 0.282, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#787348</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF787348)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF787348)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(72, 115, 120)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(120, 115, 72)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(120, 115, 72)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 120, 115, 72)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4706f, 0.4510f, 0.2824f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{120,115,72}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #787348 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #787348 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#504C30, #E8E6D9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #787348 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: #F9F9F6;
  --brand-100: #F3F2ED;
  --brand-200: #E5E4D7;
  --brand-300: #D5D2B9;
  --brand-400: #C0BC96;
  --brand-500: #ABA573;
  --brand-600: #99935C;
  --brand-700: #787348;
  --brand-800: #66623D;
  --brand-900: #4B482F;
  --brand-950: #2F2D1D;
  --brand: #787348;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F9F5;
  --brand-border: #E0DECC;
  --brand-hover: #625E3B;
  --brand-pressed: #4B482D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #232215;
    --brand-ink: #E8E6D9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F9F6',
        100: '#F3F2ED',
        200: '#E5E4D7',
        300: '#D5D2B9',
        400: '#C0BC96',
        500: '#ABA573',
        600: '#99935C',
        700: '#787348',
        800: '#66623D',
        900: '#4B482F',
        950: '#2F2D1D',
        DEFAULT: '#787348',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F9F6,
  '100': #F3F2ED,
  '200': #E5E4D7,
  '300': #D5D2B9,
  '400': #C0BC96,
  '500': #ABA573,
  '600': #99935C,
  '700': #787348,
  '800': #66623D,
  '900': #4B482F,
  '950': #2F2D1D,
);
$brand-base: #787348;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3F2ED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5E4D7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D5D2B9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C0BC96", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#ABA573", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#99935C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#787348", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#66623D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4B482F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2F2D1D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #787348 · 4.83:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.83:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.34:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #787348 as text scores 4.83:1 on white and 4.34:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F5F5EF at 4.42:1.

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
#787348 · 4.83:1
AA on whitealready passes
#787348
The quick fox
#5E5A39 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−8% L
#5E5A39
The quick fox
#7B764A · 4.53:1
AA on black+1% L
#7B764A
The quick fox
#9E985F · 7.11:1
AAA on black+12% L
#9E985F

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #787348 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
#787348 on white: 4.83:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#787348 on black: 4.34:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #787348 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #787348.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.83:1AaAa
Slate 504.62:1AaAa
Slate 1004.41:1AaAa
Slate 2003.92:1AaAa
Slate 3003.26:1AaAa
Slate 4001.89:1AaAa
Slate 5001.02:1AaAa
Slate 6001.57:1AaAa
Slate 7002.14:1AaAa
Slate 8003.03:1AaAa
Slate 9003.69:1AaAa
Black4.34:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #7A7045
deuteranopia · #7C734A
tritanopia · #7F6D68

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. #787348 is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F9F6
#F3F2ED
#E5E4D7
#D5D2B9
#C0BC96
#ABA573
#99935C
#787348
#66623D
#4B482F
#2F2D1D
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9F9F6Darkest = 950 · #2F2D1DText 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 0.015 102.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.025 102.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.037 102.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.048 102.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.057 102.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.061 102.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.061 102.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.058 102.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.052 102.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.043 102.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.034 102.5);
}

Colors that work with #787348

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#F9F9F5
Tinted page background
Border#E0DECC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8F8A56
Captions on the surface
Accent#44587C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#504C30
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5F5EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#232215
Dark-mode background
Hover#625E3B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4B482D
Two steps down
Disabled#AFAA81
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8F8845
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 #787348

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
  • 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.

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight62/100
  • 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#484D78
Analogous left#785B48
Analogous right#657848
Split-complement 1#486578
Split-complement 2#5B4878
Triadic 1#487873
Triadic 2#734878
Tetradic#48785B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°54°

#787348 sits at 54°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.1%
Green45.1%
Blue28.2%
R · 0–255
120
0x78
G · 0–255
115
0x73
B · 0–255
72
0x48

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta4.2%
Yellow40.0%
Key (black)52.9%

Total ink coverage is 97%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#787348 text on a black background

contrast 4.34:1

Card sample

#787348 text on a white background

contrast 4.83:1

Card sample

#787348 on grey

4.41:1

#787348 on its own surface

4.58:1

#787348 on its dark surface

3.31:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #787348;
Background color
Panel with #787348 background
background-color: #787348;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #787348;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(120, 115, 72, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(120, 115, 72, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #787348;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #787348, #5D7848);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #787348, #517848);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #787348;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #787348;
caret-color: #787348;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #787348;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5F5EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #787348;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#787348 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #787348 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(120, 115, 72, 0.5)
rgb(120 115 72 / 50%)
#78734880
hsl(54 25% 38% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #787348 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7873481a#F2F1ED
20%#78734833#E4E3DA
40%#78734866#C9C7B6
60%#78734899#AEAB91
80%#787348cc#938F6D

Gradients from #787348

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, #9E985F, #787348 45%, #504C30);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #787348, #4B653C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #787348, #484D78);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AAA471 0%, #787348 45%, #504C30 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F9F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #986E5B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #708B53 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #504C30 0%, transparent 65%), #787348;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #787348

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.

#787348 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 4.34:1 — lift it to #7B764A 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.

#787348, answered

What color is #787348?

#787348 is a dark soft yellow, closest to Dark Olive Green (ΔE2000 10.5). It sits at 54° on the hue wheel with 25% saturation and 38% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #787348?

rgb(120, 115, 72) — 120 red, 115 green and 72 blue out of 255, or 47.1% / 45.1% / 28.2% by channel.

What is #787348 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(54, 25%, 38%) and hsv(54, 40%, 47%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #787348 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1672 and perceived brightness is 44%, so white text on it reaches 4.83:1.

Should I use black or white text on #787348?

White. It scores 4.83:1 against #787348, versus 4.34:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #787348 accessible on a white background?

#787348 on white scores 4.83:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #787348?

#484D78 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #486578 and #5B4878, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #787348?

For interface work: #F9F9F5 as the surface, #E0DECC for borders, #8F8A56 for secondary text, #44587C as an accent and #504C30 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #785B48 and #657848 stays calm, while #484D78 is the loudest partner.

What is #787348 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 4%, 40%, 53%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #787348 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 28 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #786148; nudged cooler, #6C7A46.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #787348?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 14.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #787348 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #787348 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#787348] or text-[#787348], 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 #787348 with 50% opacity?

rgba(120, 115, 72, 0.5), or #78734880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BCB9A4; over black, #3C3A24.

Is #787348 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #666633, ΔE2000 6.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #787348 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #787348?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9E985F, #787348 45%, #504C30). For more colour, a short hue run to #4B653C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #787348 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #787348 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.