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#913402

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

Token name suggestion: Forest Apricot

RGB
145, 52, 2
HSL
21°, 97%, 29%
CMYK
0, 64, 99, 43
Luminance
0.0848

#913402 is a dark electric orange, 21° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.79:1). As text it scores 7.79:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is red.

hsl(21 97% 29%)rgb(145 52 2)Base step 800AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #913402 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#913402
Hue
21°
orange
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
29%
dark
Brightness
57%
HSV value
Perceived
35%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0848
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
7.79:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 5.4
Chroma
59.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.454
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
red
500 · ΔE 23.5
Web-safe
#993300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue21° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness29%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #913402.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool5% 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
Red71%
Green29%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#913402
HEX (8-digit)#913402ff
RGBrgb(145, 52, 2)
RGBArgba(145, 52, 2, 1)
HSLhsl(21, 97%, 29%)
HSV / HSBhsv(21, 99%, 57%)
HWBhwb(21 1% 43%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 64%, 99%, 43%)
LABlab(35.0 37.4 45.8)
LCHlch(35.0 59.1 50.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.454 0.136 41.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(12.92, 8.48, 1.01)
Decimal9516034
Display P3color(display-p3 0.569 0.204 0.008)
Web-safe#993300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #913402;
background-color: #913402;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #913402;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#913402] bg-[#913402]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #913402;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.569, green: 0.204, blue: 0.008)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.569, green: 0.204, blue: 0.008, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#913402</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF913402)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF913402)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(2, 52, 145)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(145, 52, 2)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(145, 52, 2)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 145, 52, 2)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5686f, 0.2039f, 0.0078f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{145,52,2}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #913402 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #913402 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7E2D02, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #913402 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: #FDF6F1;
  --brand-100: #FCECE4;
  --brand-200: #FBD5C1;
  --brand-300: #FDB790;
  --brand-400: #FD9259;
  --brand-500: #FC6E22;
  --brand-600: #F15703;
  --brand-700: #C94803;
  --brand-800: #913402;
  --brand-900: #742D06;
  --brand-950: #481C04;
  --brand: #913402;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCFC0;
  --brand-hover: #6E2702;
  --brand-pressed: #4A1B01;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF6F1',
        100: '#FCECE4',
        200: '#FBD5C1',
        300: '#FDB790',
        400: '#FD9259',
        500: '#FC6E22',
        600: '#F15703',
        700: '#C94803',
        800: '#913402',
        900: '#742D06',
        950: '#481C04',
        DEFAULT: '#913402',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF6F1,
  '100': #FCECE4,
  '200': #FBD5C1,
  '300': #FDB790,
  '400': #FD9259,
  '500': #FC6E22,
  '600': #F15703,
  '700': #C94803,
  '800': #913402,
  '900': #742D06,
  '950': #481C04,
);
$brand-base: #913402;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF6F1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCECE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBD5C1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FDB790", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FD9259", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FC6E22", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F15703", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C94803", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#913402", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#742D06", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#481C04", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #913402 · 7.79:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.79:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.70:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #913402 as text scores 7.79:1 on white and 2.70:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FFEFE6 at 6.95:1.

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
#913402 · 7.79:1
AA on whitealready passes
#913402
The quick fox
#913402 · 7.79:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#913402
The quick fox
#CD4A03 · 4.58:1
AA on black+12% L
#CD4A03
The quick fox
#FC6717 · 7.09:1
AAA on black+25% L
#FC6717

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #913402 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
#913402 on white: 7.79:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#913402 on black: 2.70:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #913402 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #913402.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.79:1AaAa
Slate 507.44:1AaAa
Slate 1007.11:1AaAa
Slate 2006.32:1AaAa
Slate 3005.25:1AaAa
Slate 4003.04:1AaAa
Slate 5001.64:1AaAa
Slate 6001.03:1AaAa
Slate 7001.33:1AaAa
Slate 8001.88:1AaAa
Slate 9002.29:1AaAa
Black2.70:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #4F4500
deuteranopia · #665A00
tritanopia · #A0192C

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. #913402 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.

#FDF6F1
#FCECE4
#FBD5C1
#FDB790
#FD9259
#FC6E22
#F15703
#C94803
#913402
#742D06
#481C04
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FDF6F1Darkest = 950 · #481C04Text 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 0.034 41.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 41.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.082 41.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.106 41.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.125 41.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.136 41.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.136 41.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.128 41.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.114 41.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.095 41.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.075 41.8);
}

Colors that work with #913402

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#FAF6F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDCFC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B674B
Captions on the surface
Accent#008493
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7E2D02
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFEFE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#6E2702
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4A1B01
Two steps down
Disabled#9D7966
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A73B00
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 #913402

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight71/100
  • 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#025F91
Analogous left#910217
Analogous right#917B02
Split-complement 1#02917B
Split-complement 2#021791
Triadic 1#029134
Triadic 2#340291
Tetradic#179102
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°21°

#913402 sits at 21°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red56.9%
Green20.4%
Blue0.8%
R · 0–255
145
0x91
G · 0–255
52
0x34
B · 0–255
2
0x02

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta64.1%
Yellow98.6%
Key (black)43.1%

Total ink coverage is 206%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#913402 text on a black background

contrast 2.70:1

Card sample

#913402 text on a white background

contrast 7.79:1

Card sample

#913402 on grey

7.11:1

#913402 on its own surface

7.25:1

#913402 on its dark surface

2.19:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #913402;
Background color
Panel with #913402 background
background-color: #913402;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #913402;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(145, 52, 2, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(145, 52, 2, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #913402;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #913402, #8F9102);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #913402, #6B9102);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #913402;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #913402;
caret-color: #913402;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #913402;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFEFE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #913402;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#913402 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #913402 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(145, 52, 2, 0.5)
rgb(145 52 2 / 50%)
#91340280
hsl(21 97% 29% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #913402 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9134021a#F4EBE6
20%#91340233#E9D6CC
40%#91340266#D3AE9A
60%#91340299#BD8567
80%#913402cc#A75D35

Gradients from #913402

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, #CD4A03, #913402 45%, #7E2D02);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #913402, #677302);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #913402, #025F91);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #EB5503 0%, #913402 45%, #7E2D02 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF6F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #C30330 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AFA402 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7E2D02 0%, transparent 65%), #913402;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #913402

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.

#913402 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

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 2.70:1 — lift it to #CD4A03 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.

#913402, answered

What color is #913402?

#913402 is a dark electric orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 5.4). It sits at 21° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 29% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #913402?

rgb(145, 52, 2) — 145 red, 52 green and 2 blue out of 255, or 56.9% / 20.4% / 0.8% by channel.

What is #913402 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(21, 97%, 29%) and hsv(21, 99%, 57%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #913402 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0848 and perceived brightness is 35%, so white text on it reaches 7.79:1.

Should I use black or white text on #913402?

White. It scores 7.79:1 against #913402, versus 2.70:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #913402 accessible on a white background?

#913402 on white scores 7.79:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #913402?

#025F91 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #02917B and #021791, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #913402?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCFC0 for borders, #9B674B for secondary text, #008493 as an accent and #7E2D02 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #910217 and #917B02 stays calm, while #025F91 is the loudest partner.

What is #913402 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 64%, 99%, 43%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #913402 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 5 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #AA4502; nudged cooler, #920103.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #913402?

The red family — its 500 step is #ef4444, ΔE2000 23.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #913402 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #913402 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#913402] or text-[#913402], 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 #913402 with 50% opacity?

rgba(145, 52, 2, 0.5), or #91340280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C89A81; over black, #491A01.

Is #913402 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #993300, ΔE2000 1.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #913402 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 #913402?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CD4A03, #913402 45%, #7E2D02). For more colour, a short hue run to #677302 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #913402 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #913402 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.