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#917753

a dark, soft orange · warm · closest name: Dark Goldenrod

Token name suggestion: Slate Marmalade

RGB
145, 119, 83
HSL
35°, 27%, 45%
CMYK
0, 18, 43, 43
Luminance
0.1984

#917753 is a dark soft orange, 35° on the wheel and 14/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.97:1). As text it scores 4.23:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Dark Goldenrod, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(35 27% 45%)rgb(145 119 83)Base step 600AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #917753 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#917753
Hue
35°
orange
Saturation
27%
soft
Lightness
45%
dark
Brightness
57%
HSV value
Perceived
49%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1984
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
14/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
4.97:1
Closest name
Dark Goldenrod
ΔE2000 15.1
Chroma
24.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.585
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 13
Web-safe
#996666
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue35° of 360°
Saturation27%
Lightness45%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #917753.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool14% 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
Red30%
Green67%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#917753
HEX (8-digit)#917753ff
RGBrgb(145, 119, 83)
RGBArgba(145, 119, 83, 1)
HSLhsl(35, 27%, 45%)
HSV / HSBhsv(35, 43%, 57%)
HWBhwb(35 33% 43%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 18%, 43%, 43%)
LABlab(51.6 5.0 23.6)
LCHlch(51.6 24.1 78.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.585 0.060 75.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(19.84, 19.84, 10.97)
Decimal9533267
Display P3color(display-p3 0.569 0.467 0.325)
Web-safe#996666

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #917753;
background-color: #917753;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #917753;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#917753] bg-[#917753]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #917753;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.569, green: 0.467, blue: 0.325)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.569, green: 0.467, blue: 0.325, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#917753</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF917753)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF917753)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(83, 119, 145)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(145, 119, 83)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(145, 119, 83)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 145, 119, 83)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5686f, 0.4667f, 0.3255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{145,119,83}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #917753 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #917753 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#51432E, #E9E2D8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #917753 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: #F3F0EC;
  --brand-200: #E6DFD6;
  --brand-300: #D6C9B8;
  --brand-400: #C2AF94;
  --brand-500: #AD9470;
  --brand-600: #917753;
  --brand-700: #826A4A;
  --brand-800: #68553B;
  --brand-900: #4D402E;
  --brand-950: #30281D;
  --brand: #917753;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F8F5;
  --brand-border: #E1D8CB;
  --brand-hover: #7A6446;
  --brand-pressed: #645239;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241D14;
    --brand-ink: #E9E2D8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F8F6',
        100: '#F3F0EC',
        200: '#E6DFD6',
        300: '#D6C9B8',
        400: '#C2AF94',
        500: '#AD9470',
        600: '#917753',
        700: '#826A4A',
        800: '#68553B',
        900: '#4D402E',
        950: '#30281D',
        DEFAULT: '#917753',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F8F6,
  '100': #F3F0EC,
  '200': #E6DFD6,
  '300': #D6C9B8,
  '400': #C2AF94,
  '500': #AD9470,
  '600': #917753,
  '700': #826A4A,
  '800': #68553B,
  '900': #4D402E,
  '950': #30281D,
);
$brand-base: #917753;
$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": "#F3F0EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E6DFD6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D6C9B8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C2AF94", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AD9470", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#917753", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#826A4A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#68553B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4D402E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#30281D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #917753 · 4.97:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.23:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.97:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #917753 as text scores 4.23:1 on white and 4.97:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #51432E at 2.27:1.

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
#8B724F · 4.55:1
AA on white−2% L
#8B724F
The quick fox
#67543B · 7.22:1
AAA on white−13% L
#67543B
The quick fox
#917753 · 4.97:1
AA on blackalready passes
#917753
The quick fox
#AB916C · 7.00:1
AAA on black+10% L
#AB916C

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #917753 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
#917753 on white: 4.23:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#917753 on black: 4.97:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #917753 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #917753.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.23:1AaAa
Slate 504.04:1AaAa
Slate 1003.86:1AaAa
Slate 2003.43:1AaAa
Slate 3002.85:1AaAa
Slate 4001.65:1AaAa
Slate 5001.13:1AaAa
Slate 6001.79:1AaAa
Slate 7002.45:1AaAa
Slate 8003.46:1AaAa
Slate 9004.22:1AaAa
Black4.97:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #817750
deuteranopia · #877E54
tritanopia · #9B706E

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. #917753 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F8F6
#F3F0EC
#E6DFD6
#D6C9B8
#C2AF94
#AD9470
#917753
#826A4A
#68553B
#4D402E
#30281D
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F9F8F6Darkest = 950 · #30281DText 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 75.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 75.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.036 75.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.047 75.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.055 75.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.060 75.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.060 75.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.057 75.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.051 75.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.042 75.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 75.2);
}

Colors that work with #917753

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#E1D8CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#927854
Captions on the surface
Accent#4E7E96
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#51432E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6F3EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241D14
Dark-mode background
Hover#7A6446
One step down in lightness
Pressed#645239
Two steps down
Disabled#BDAD97
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#AA844E
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 #917753

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 #51432E
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
  • Weight55/100
  • 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#536D91
Analogous left#915853
Analogous right#8C9153
Split-complement 1#538C91
Split-complement 2#585391
Triadic 1#539177
Triadic 2#775391
Tetradic#539158
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°35°

#917753 sits at 35°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red56.9%
Green46.7%
Blue32.5%
R · 0–255
145
0x91
G · 0–255
119
0x77
B · 0–255
83
0x53

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta17.9%
Yellow42.8%
Key (black)43.1%

Total ink coverage is 104%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#917753 text on a black background

contrast 4.97:1

Card sample

#917753 text on a white background

contrast 4.23:1

Card sample

#917753 on grey

3.86:1

#917753 on its own surface

3.98:1

#917753 on its dark surface

3.94:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #917753;
Background color
Panel with #917753 background
background-color: #917753;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #917753;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(145, 119, 83, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(145, 119, 83, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #917753;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #917753, #829153);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #917753, #729153);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #917753;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #917753;
caret-color: #917753;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #917753;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6F3EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #917753;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#917753 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #917753 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, 119, 83, 0.5)
rgb(145 119 83 / 50%)
#91775380
hsl(35 27% 45% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #917753 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9177531a#F4F1EE
20%#91775333#E9E4DD
40%#91775366#D3C9BA
60%#91775399#BDAD98
80%#917753cc#A79275

Gradients from #917753

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, #AF9573, #917753 45%, #51432E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #917753, #6C7E48);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #917753, #536D91);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BAA486 0%, #917753 45%, #51432E 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%, #AB6C6C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #98A35F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #51432E 0%, transparent 65%), #917753;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #917753

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.

#917753 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 4.97:1.

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.

#917753, answered

What color is #917753?

#917753 is a dark soft orange, closest to Dark Goldenrod (ΔE2000 15.1). It sits at 35° on the hue wheel with 27% saturation and 45% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #917753?

rgb(145, 119, 83) — 145 red, 119 green and 83 blue out of 255, or 56.9% / 46.7% / 32.5% by channel.

What is #917753 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(35, 27%, 45%) and hsv(35, 43%, 57%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #917753 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1984 and perceived brightness is 49%, so black text on it reaches 4.97:1.

Should I use black or white text on #917753?

Black. It scores 4.97:1 against #917753, versus 4.23:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #917753 accessible on a white background?

#917753 on white scores 4.23:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #8B724F to reach 4.5:1, or #67543B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #917753?

#536D91 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #538C91 and #585391, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #917753?

For interface work: #F9F8F5 as the surface, #E1D8CB for borders, #927854 for secondary text, #4E7E96 as an accent and #51432E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #915853 and #8C9153 stays calm, while #536D91 is the loudest partner.

What is #917753 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 18%, 43%, 43%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #917753 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 14 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #916F53; nudged cooler, #939051.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #917753?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 13 away. That is a visible difference, so define #917753 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #917753 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#917753] or text-[#917753], 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 #917753 with 50% opacity?

rgba(145, 119, 83, 0.5), or #91775380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C8BBA9; over black, #493C2A.

Is #917753 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #996666, ΔE2000 19.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #917753 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 #917753?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #AF9573, #917753 45%, #51432E). For more colour, a short hue run to #6C7E48 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #917753 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #917753 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.