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#897652

a dark, soft orange · warm · closest name: Olive

Token name suggestion: Forest Clay

RGB
137, 118, 82
HSL
39°, 25%, 43%
CMYK
0, 14, 40, 46
Luminance
0.1888

#897652 is a dark soft orange, 39° on the wheel and 20/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.78:1). As text it scores 4.40:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Olive, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(39 25% 43%)rgb(137 118 82)Base step 700AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #897652 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#897652
Hue
39°
orange
Saturation
25%
soft
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
54%
HSV value
Perceived
47%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1888
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
20/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
4.78:1
Closest name
Olive
ΔE2000 15
Chroma
22.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.575
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 12.3
Web-safe
#996666
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue39° of 360°
Saturation25%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #897652.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool20% 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
Red28%
Green69%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#897652
HEX (8-digit)#897652ff
RGBrgb(137, 118, 82)
RGBArgba(137, 118, 82, 1)
HSLhsl(39, 25%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(39, 40%, 54%)
HWBhwb(39 32% 46%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 14%, 40%, 46%)
LABlab(50.5 1.9 22.6)
LCHlch(50.5 22.6 85.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.575 0.056 83.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(18.32, 18.89, 10.66)
Decimal9008722
Display P3color(display-p3 0.537 0.463 0.322)
Web-safe#996666

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #897652;
background-color: #897652;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #897652;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#897652] bg-[#897652]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #897652;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.537, green: 0.463, blue: 0.322)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.537, green: 0.463, blue: 0.322, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#897652</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF897652)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF897652)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(82, 118, 137)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(137, 118, 82)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(137, 118, 82)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 137, 118, 82)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5373f, 0.4627f, 0.3216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{137,118,82}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #897652 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #897652 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#504530, #E8E3D9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #897652 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: #F9F8F6;
  --brand-100: #F3F1ED;
  --brand-200: #E5E0D7;
  --brand-300: #D5CBB9;
  --brand-400: #C0B196;
  --brand-500: #AB9873;
  --brand-600: #99845C;
  --brand-700: #897652;
  --brand-800: #66583D;
  --brand-900: #4B422F;
  --brand-950: #2F291D;
  --brand: #897652;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F8F5;
  --brand-border: #E0D9CC;
  --brand-hover: #736345;
  --brand-pressed: #5C4F37;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #231E15;
    --brand-ink: #E8E3D9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F8F6',
        100: '#F3F1ED',
        200: '#E5E0D7',
        300: '#D5CBB9',
        400: '#C0B196',
        500: '#AB9873',
        600: '#99845C',
        700: '#897652',
        800: '#66583D',
        900: '#4B422F',
        950: '#2F291D',
        DEFAULT: '#897652',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F8F6,
  '100': #F3F1ED,
  '200': #E5E0D7,
  '300': #D5CBB9,
  '400': #C0B196,
  '500': #AB9873,
  '600': #99845C,
  '700': #897652,
  '800': #66583D,
  '900': #4B422F,
  '950': #2F291D,
);
$brand-base: #897652;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F8F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3F1ED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5E0D7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D5CBB9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C0B196", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AB9873", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#99845C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#897652", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#66583D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4B422F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2F291D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #897652 · 4.78:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.40:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.78:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #897652 as text scores 4.40:1 on white and 4.78:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #504530 at 2.14:1.

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
#867350 · 4.58:1
AA on white−1% L
#867350
The quick fox
#63553B · 7.26:1
AAA on white−12% L
#63553B
The quick fox
#897652 · 4.78:1
AA on blackalready passes
#897652
The quick fox
#A7936C · 7.03:1
AAA on black+11% L
#A7936C

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #897652 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
#897652 on white: 4.40:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#897652 on black: 4.78:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #897652 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #897652.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.40:1AaAa
Slate 504.20:1AaAa
Slate 1004.01:1AaAa
Slate 2003.57:1AaAa
Slate 3002.96:1AaAa
Slate 4001.71:1AaAa
Slate 5001.08:1AaAa
Slate 6001.72:1AaAa
Slate 7002.36:1AaAa
Slate 8003.33:1AaAa
Slate 9004.06:1AaAa
Black4.78:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #7F754F
deuteranopia · #837A53
tritanopia · #91706D

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. #897652 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.

#F9F8F6
#F3F1ED
#E5E0D7
#D5CBB9
#C0B196
#AB9873
#99845C
#897652
#66583D
#4B422F
#2F291D
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9F8F6Darkest = 950 · #2F291DText step on white = 800
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 0.014 83.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.023 83.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.034 83.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.044 83.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.052 83.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.056 83.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.056 83.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.053 83.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.047 83.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.039 83.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.031 83.0);
}

Colors that work with #897652

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F9F8F5
Tinted page background
Border#E0D9CC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#907C56
Captions on the surface
Accent#4E738D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#504530
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5F3EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#231E15
Dark-mode background
Hover#736345
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5C4F37
Two steps down
Disabled#B9AC92
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A2854E
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 #897652

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Black text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #504530
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
  • Weight57/100
  • 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#526589
Analogous left#895A52
Analogous right#808952
Split-complement 1#528089
Split-complement 2#5A5289
Triadic 1#528976
Triadic 2#765289
Tetradic#52895A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°39°

#897652 sits at 39°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red53.7%
Green46.3%
Blue32.2%
R · 0–255
137
0x89
G · 0–255
118
0x76
B · 0–255
82
0x52

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta13.9%
Yellow40.1%
Key (black)46.3%

Total ink coverage is 100%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#897652 text on a black background

contrast 4.78:1

Card sample

#897652 text on a white background

contrast 4.40:1

Card sample

#897652 on grey

4.01:1

#897652 on its own surface

4.14:1

#897652 on its dark surface

3.77:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #897652;
Background color
Panel with #897652 background
background-color: #897652;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #897652;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(137, 118, 82, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(137, 118, 82, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #897652;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #897652, #778952);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #897652, #698952);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #897652;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #897652;
caret-color: #897652;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #897652;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5F3EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #897652;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#897652 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #897652 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(137, 118, 82, 0.5)
rgb(137 118 82 / 50%)
#89765280
hsl(39 25% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #897652 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8976521a#F3F1EE
20%#89765233#E7E4DC
40%#89765266#D0C8BA
60%#89765299#B8AD97
80%#897652cc#A19175

Gradients from #897652

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, #A9956F, #897652 45%, #504530);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #897652, #637646);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #897652, #526589);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B4A382 0%, #897652 45%, #504530 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F8F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #A56D69 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8D9C5D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #504530 0%, transparent 65%), #897652;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #897652

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.

#897652 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 4.78:1.

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.

#897652, answered

What color is #897652?

#897652 is a dark soft orange, closest to Olive (ΔE2000 15). It sits at 39° on the hue wheel with 25% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #897652?

rgb(137, 118, 82) — 137 red, 118 green and 82 blue out of 255, or 53.7% / 46.3% / 32.2% by channel.

What is #897652 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(39, 25%, 43%) and hsv(39, 40%, 54%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #897652 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1888 and perceived brightness is 47%, so black text on it reaches 4.78:1.

Should I use black or white text on #897652?

Black. It scores 4.78:1 against #897652, versus 4.40:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #897652 accessible on a white background?

#897652 on white scores 4.40:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #867350 to reach 4.5:1, or #63553B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #897652?

#526589 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #528089 and #5A5289, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #897652?

For interface work: #F9F8F5 as the surface, #E0D9CC for borders, #907C56 for secondary text, #4E738D as an accent and #504530 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #895A52 and #808952 stays calm, while #526589 is the loudest partner.

What is #897652 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 14%, 40%, 46%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #897652 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 20 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #896C52; nudged cooler, #8A8B50.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #897652?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 12.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #897652 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #897652 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#897652] or text-[#897652], 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 #897652 with 50% opacity?

rgba(137, 118, 82, 0.5), or #89765280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C4BBA9; over black, #453B29.

Is #897652 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #996666, ΔE2000 21.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #897652 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 #897652?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A9956F, #897652 45%, #504530). For more colour, a short hue run to #637646 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #897652 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #897652 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.