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orange · warm

#7f643f

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

Token name suggestion: Slate Apricot

RGB
127, 100, 63
HSL
35°, 34%, 37%
CMYK
0, 21, 50, 50
Luminance
0.1399

#7f643f is a dark soft orange, 35° on the wheel and 6/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.53:1). As text it scores 5.53:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(35 34% 37%)rgb(127 100 63)Base step 700AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7f643f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7f643f
Hue
35°
orange
Saturation
34%
soft
Lightness
37%
dark
Brightness
50%
HSV value
Perceived
41%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1399
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
6/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
5.53:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 14
Chroma
25.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.521
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 13.7
Web-safe
#666633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue35° of 360°
Saturation34%
Lightness37%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7f643f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool6% 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
Red32%
Green65%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#7f643f
HEX (8-digit)#7f643fff
RGBrgb(127, 100, 63)
RGBArgba(127, 100, 63, 1)
HSLhsl(35, 34%, 37%)
HSV / HSBhsv(35, 50%, 50%)
HWBhwb(35 25% 50%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 21%, 50%, 50%)
LABlab(44.2 5.8 25.0)
LCHlch(44.2 25.7 76.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.521 0.063 74.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.21, 13.99, 6.65)
Decimal8348735
Display P3color(display-p3 0.498 0.392 0.247)
Web-safe#666633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7f643f;
background-color: #7f643f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7f643f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7f643f] bg-[#7f643f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7f643f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.498, green: 0.392, blue: 0.247)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.498, green: 0.392, blue: 0.247, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7F643F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7F643F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7F643F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(63, 100, 127)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(127, 100, 63)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(127, 100, 63)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 127, 100, 63)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4980f, 0.3922f, 0.2471f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{127,100,63}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7f643f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7f643f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#55432A, #EBE2D6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7f643f 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: #F9F8F5;
  --brand-100: #F4F0EC;
  --brand-200: #E8DFD4;
  --brand-300: #DACAB4;
  --brand-400: #C7AF8E;
  --brand-500: #B59569;
  --brand-600: #A48151;
  --brand-700: #7f643f;
  --brand-800: #6D5636;
  --brand-900: #50402A;
  --brand-950: #32281A;
  --brand: #7f643f;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F5;
  --brand-border: #E4D8C8;
  --brand-hover: #675133;
  --brand-pressed: #4F3F27;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241D14;
    --brand-ink: #EBE2D6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F8F5',
        100: '#F4F0EC',
        200: '#E8DFD4',
        300: '#DACAB4',
        400: '#C7AF8E',
        500: '#B59569',
        600: '#A48151',
        700: '#7f643f',
        800: '#6D5636',
        900: '#50402A',
        950: '#32281A',
        DEFAULT: '#7f643f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F8F5,
  '100': #F4F0EC,
  '200': #E8DFD4,
  '300': #DACAB4,
  '400': #C7AF8E,
  '500': #B59569,
  '600': #A48151,
  '700': #7f643f,
  '800': #6D5636,
  '900': #50402A,
  '950': #32281A,
);
$brand-base: #7f643f;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F8F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4F0EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8DFD4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DACAB4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C7AF8E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B59569", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A48151", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7f643f", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6D5636", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#50402A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#32281A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7f643f · 5.53:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.53:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.80:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #7f643f as text scores 5.53:1 on white and 3.80:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7F3EE at 5.01:1.

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
#7f643f · 5.53:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7f643f
The quick fox
#6B5435 · 7.13:1
AAA on white−6% L
#6B5435
The quick fox
#907248 · 4.69:1
AA on black+5% L
#907248
The quick fox
#B29163 · 7.12:1
AAA on black+17% L
#B29163

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7F643F 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
#7f643f on white: 5.53:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7f643f on black: 3.80:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7f643f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7f643f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.53:1AaAa
Slate 505.29:1AaAa
Slate 1005.05:1AaAa
Slate 2004.49:1AaAa
Slate 3003.73:1AaAa
Slate 4002.16:1AaAa
Slate 5001.16:1AaAa
Slate 6001.37:1AaAa
Slate 7001.87:1AaAa
Slate 8002.65:1AaAa
Slate 9003.23:1AaAa
Black3.80:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #6E653C
deuteranopia · #756B40
tritanopia · #885D5B

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. #7f643f 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.

#F9F8F5
#F4F0EC
#E8DFD4
#DACAB4
#C7AF8E
#B59569
#A48151
#7f643f
#6D5636
#50402A
#32281A
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9F8F5Darkest = 950 · #32281AText 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 74.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.025 74.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.038 74.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.049 74.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.058 74.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.063 74.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.063 74.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.059 74.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.053 74.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.044 74.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.035 74.4);
}

Colors that work with #7f643f

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#FAF8F5
Tinted page background
Border#E4D8C8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#99794C
Captions on the surface
Accent#3B6B83
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#55432A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7F3EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241D14
Dark-mode background
Hover#675133
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4F3F27
Two steps down
Disabled#AE9B80
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#97713B
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 #7f643f

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
  • Weight63/100
  • 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#3F5A7F
Analogous left#7F443F
Analogous right#7A7F3F
Split-complement 1#3F7A7F
Split-complement 2#443F7F
Triadic 1#3F7F64
Triadic 2#643F7F
Tetradic#3F7F44
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°35°

#7f643f sits at 35°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.8%
Green39.2%
Blue24.7%
R · 0–255
127
0x7f
G · 0–255
100
0x64
B · 0–255
63
0x3f

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta21.3%
Yellow50.4%
Key (black)50.2%

Total ink coverage is 122%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7f643f text on a black background

contrast 3.80:1

Card sample

#7f643f text on a white background

contrast 5.53:1

Card sample

#7f643f on grey

5.05:1

#7f643f on its own surface

5.22:1

#7f643f on its dark surface

3.01:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7f643f;
Background color
Panel with #7f643f background
background-color: #7f643f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7f643f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(127, 100, 63, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(127, 100, 63, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7f643f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7f643f, #6F7F3F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7f643f, #5F7F3F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7f643f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7f643f;
caret-color: #7f643f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7f643f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7F3EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7f643f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7f643f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7f643f 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(127, 100, 63, 0.5)
rgb(127 100 63 / 50%)
#7f643f80
hsl(35 34% 37% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7f643f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7f643f1a#F2F0EC
20%#7f643f33#E5E0D9
40%#7f643f66#CCC1B2
60%#7f643f99#B2A28C
80%#7f643fcc#998365

Gradients from #7f643f

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, #A88453, #7f643f 45%, #55432A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7f643f, #596B35);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7f643f, #3F5A7F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B39367 0%, #7f643f 45%, #55432A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF8F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #A15050 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #889449 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #55432A 0%, transparent 65%), #7f643f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7f643f

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.

#7f643f 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 3.80:1 — lift it to #907248 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.

#7f643f, answered

What color is #7f643f?

#7f643f is a dark soft orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 14). It sits at 35° on the hue wheel with 34% saturation and 37% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #7f643f?

rgb(127, 100, 63) — 127 red, 100 green and 63 blue out of 255, or 49.8% / 39.2% / 24.7% by channel.

What is #7f643f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(35, 34%, 37%) and hsv(35, 50%, 50%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7f643f a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1399 and perceived brightness is 41%, so white text on it reaches 5.53:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7f643f?

White. It scores 5.53:1 against #7f643f, versus 3.80:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #7f643f accessible on a white background?

#7f643f on white scores 5.53:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #7f643f?

#3F5A7F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #3F7A7F and #443F7F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7f643f?

For interface work: #FAF8F5 as the surface, #E4D8C8 for borders, #99794C for secondary text, #3B6B83 as an accent and #55432A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7F443F and #7A7F3F stays calm, while #3F5A7F is the loudest partner.

What is #7f643f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 21%, 50%, 50%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7f643f warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 6 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #7F5C3F; nudged cooler, #817D3D.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7f643f?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 13.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7f643f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7f643f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7f643f] or text-[#7f643f], 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 #7f643f with 50% opacity?

rgba(127, 100, 63, 0.5), or #7f643f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BFB29F; over black, #403220.

Is #7f643f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #666633, ΔE2000 12.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7f643f 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 #7f643f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A88453, #7f643f 45%, #55432A). For more colour, a short hue run to #596B35 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7f643f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7f643f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.