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#795339

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Marmalade

RGB
121, 83, 57
HSL
24°, 36%, 35%
CMYK
0, 31, 53, 53
Luminance
0.1055

#795339 is a dark soft orange, 24° on the wheel and 3/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.75:1). As text it scores 6.75:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(24 36% 35%)rgb(121 83 57)Base step 800AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #795339 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#795339
Hue
24°
orange
Saturation
36%
soft
Lightness
35%
dark
Brightness
47%
HSV value
Perceived
37%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1055
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
3/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
6.75:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 9.1
Chroma
24.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.477
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 16.1
Web-safe
#666633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue24° of 360°
Saturation36%
Lightness35%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #795339.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool3% 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
Red39%
Green59%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#795339
HEX (8-digit)#795339ff
RGBrgb(121, 83, 57)
RGBArgba(121, 83, 57, 1)
HSLhsl(24, 36%, 35%)
HSV / HSBhsv(24, 53%, 47%)
HWBhwb(24 22% 53%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 31%, 53%, 53%)
LABlab(38.8 12.6 21.5)
LCHlch(38.8 24.9 59.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.477 0.064 54.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(11.72, 10.55, 5.29)
Decimal7951161
Display P3color(display-p3 0.475 0.325 0.224)
Web-safe#666633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #795339;
background-color: #795339;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #795339;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#795339] bg-[#795339]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #795339;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.475, green: 0.325, blue: 0.224)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.475, green: 0.325, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#795339</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF795339)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF795339)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(57, 83, 121)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(121, 83, 57)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(121, 83, 57)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 121, 83, 57)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4745f, 0.3255f, 0.2235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{121,83,57}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #795339 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #795339 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#573B29, #EBDED5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #795339 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: #F9F7F5;
  --brand-100: #F4EFEB;
  --brand-200: #E8DCD3;
  --brand-300: #DBC3B3;
  --brand-400: #C9A58D;
  --brand-500: #B78766;
  --brand-600: #A6724E;
  --brand-700: #8B5F41;
  --brand-800: #795339;
  --brand-900: #513929;
  --brand-950: #33241A;
  --brand: #795339;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F5;
  --brand-border: #E5D3C8;
  --brand-hover: #61422E;
  --brand-pressed: #483222;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EBDED5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F7F5',
        100: '#F4EFEB',
        200: '#E8DCD3',
        300: '#DBC3B3',
        400: '#C9A58D',
        500: '#B78766',
        600: '#A6724E',
        700: '#8B5F41',
        800: '#795339',
        900: '#513929',
        950: '#33241A',
        DEFAULT: '#795339',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F7F5,
  '100': #F4EFEB,
  '200': #E8DCD3,
  '300': #DBC3B3,
  '400': #C9A58D,
  '500': #B78766,
  '600': #A6724E,
  '700': #8B5F41,
  '800': #795339,
  '900': #513929,
  '950': #33241A,
);
$brand-base: #795339;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F7F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4EFEB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8DCD3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DBC3B3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C9A58D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B78766", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A6724E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8B5F41", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#795339", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#513929", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#33241A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #795339 · 6.75:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.75:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.11:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #795339 as text scores 6.75:1 on white and 3.11:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7F1EE at 6.04:1.

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
#795339 · 6.75:1
AA on whitealready passes
#795339
The quick fox
#724E36 · 7.35:1
AAA on white−2% L
#724E36
The quick fox
#9C6B49 · 4.61:1
AA on black+10% L
#9C6B49
The quick fox
#BA8C6D · 7.06:1
AAA on black+23% L
#BA8C6D

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #795339 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
#795339 on white: 6.75:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#795339 on black: 3.11:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #795339 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #795339.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.75:1AaAa
Slate 506.46:1AaAa
Slate 1006.16:1AaAa
Slate 2005.48:1AaAa
Slate 3004.55:1AaAa
Slate 4002.63:1AaAa
Slate 5001.42:1AaAa
Slate 6001.12:1AaAa
Slate 7001.53:1AaAa
Slate 8002.17:1AaAa
Slate 9002.64:1AaAa
Black3.11:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #5E5637
deuteranopia · #675F39
tritanopia · #834C4C

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. #795339 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.

#F9F7F5
#F4EFEB
#E8DCD3
#DBC3B3
#C9A58D
#B78766
#A6724E
#8B5F41
#795339
#513929
#33241A
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F9F7F5Darkest = 950 · #33241AText 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 54.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.026 54.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.038 54.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.050 54.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.059 54.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.064 54.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.064 54.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.060 54.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.054 54.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.045 54.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.035 54.9);
}

Colors that work with #795339

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#FAF7F5
Tinted page background
Border#E5D3C8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B6B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#35717D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#573B29
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7F1EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#61422E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#483222
Two steps down
Disabled#A98D79
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#915B36
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 #795339

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
  • 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
  • Weight65/100
  • 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#395F79
Analogous left#79393F
Analogous right#797339
Split-complement 1#397973
Split-complement 2#393F79
Triadic 1#397953
Triadic 2#533979
Tetradic#3F7939
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°24°

#795339 sits at 24°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.5%
Green32.5%
Blue22.4%
R · 0–255
121
0x79
G · 0–255
83
0x53
B · 0–255
57
0x39

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta31.4%
Yellow52.9%
Key (black)52.5%

Total ink coverage is 137%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#795339 text on a black background

contrast 3.11:1

Card sample

#795339 text on a white background

contrast 6.75:1

Card sample

#795339 on grey

6.16:1

#795339 on its own surface

6.33:1

#795339 on its dark surface

2.52:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #795339;
Background color
Panel with #795339 background
background-color: #795339;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #795339;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(121, 83, 57, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(121, 83, 57, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #795339;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #795339, #747939);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #795339, #647939);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #795339;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #795339;
caret-color: #795339;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #795339;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7F1EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #795339;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#795339 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #795339 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(121, 83, 57, 0.5)
rgb(121 83 57 / 50%)
#79533980
hsl(24 36% 35% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #795339 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7953391a#F2EEEB
20%#79533933#E4DDD7
40%#79533966#C9BAB0
60%#79533999#AF9888
80%#795339cc#947561

Gradients from #795339

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, #A3704D, #795339 45%, #573B29);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #795339, #5C642F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #795339, #395F79);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B27F5C 0%, #795339 45%, #573B29 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #9C4958 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8E8D43 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #573B29 0%, transparent 65%), #795339;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #795339

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.

#795339 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 3.11:1 — lift it to #9C6B49 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.

#795339, answered

What color is #795339?

#795339 is a dark soft orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 9.1). It sits at 24° on the hue wheel with 36% saturation and 35% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #795339?

rgb(121, 83, 57) — 121 red, 83 green and 57 blue out of 255, or 47.5% / 32.5% / 22.4% by channel.

What is #795339 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(24, 36%, 35%) and hsv(24, 53%, 47%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #795339 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1055 and perceived brightness is 37%, so white text on it reaches 6.75:1.

Should I use black or white text on #795339?

White. It scores 6.75:1 against #795339, versus 3.11:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #795339 accessible on a white background?

#795339 on white scores 6.75:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #795339?

#395F79 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #397973 and #393F79, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #795339?

For interface work: #FAF7F5 as the surface, #E5D3C8 for borders, #9B6B4B for secondary text, #35717D as an accent and #573B29 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #79393F and #797339 stays calm, while #395F79 is the loudest partner.

What is #795339 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 31%, 53%, 53%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #795339 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 3 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #8A6041; nudged cooler, #7B3A37.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #795339?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 16.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #795339 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #795339 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#795339] or text-[#795339], 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 #795339 with 50% opacity?

rgba(121, 83, 57, 0.5), or #79533980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BCA99C; over black, #3D2A1D.

Is #795339 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #666633, ΔE2000 19.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #795339 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 #795339?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A3704D, #795339 45%, #573B29). For more colour, a short hue run to #5C642F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #795339 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #795339 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.