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#92482a

a dark, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Sienna

Token name suggestion: Forest Apricot

RGB
146, 72, 42
HSL
17°, 55%, 37%
CMYK
0, 51, 71, 43
Luminance
0.1091

#92482a is a dark vivid orange, 17° on the wheel and 7/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.60:1). As text it scores 6.60:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Sienna, nearest Tailwind family is red.

hsl(17 55% 37%)rgb(146 72 42)Base step 700AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #92482a is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#92482a
Hue
17°
orange
Saturation
55%
vivid
Lightness
37%
dark
Brightness
57%
HSV value
Perceived
38%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1091
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
7/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
6.60:1
Closest name
Sienna
ΔE2000 4.3
Chroma
42.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.489
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
red
500 · ΔE 20.3
Web-safe
#993333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue17° of 360°
Saturation55%
Lightness37%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #92482a.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool7% 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
Red56%
Green42%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#92482a
HEX (8-digit)#92482aff
RGBrgb(146, 72, 42)
RGBArgba(146, 72, 42, 1)
HSLhsl(17, 55%, 37%)
HSV / HSBhsv(17, 71%, 57%)
HWBhwb(17 16% 43%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 51%, 71%, 43%)
LABlab(39.4 28.8 31.8)
LCHlch(39.4 42.9 47.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.489 0.109 41.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.59, 10.91, 3.53)
Decimal9586730
Display P3color(display-p3 0.573 0.282 0.165)
Web-safe#993333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #92482a;
background-color: #92482a;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #92482a;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#92482a] bg-[#92482a]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #92482a;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.573, green: 0.282, blue: 0.165)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.573, green: 0.282, blue: 0.165, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#92482A</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF92482A)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF92482A)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(42, 72, 146)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(146, 72, 42)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(146, 72, 42)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 146, 72, 42)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5725f, 0.2824f, 0.1647f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{146,72,42}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #92482a 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #92482a 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#63311C, #EEDBD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #92482a 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: #FBF6F4;
  --brand-100: #F6EDE9;
  --brand-200: #EED7CE;
  --brand-300: #E6BAA8;
  --brand-400: #D9977C;
  --brand-500: #CD7551;
  --brand-600: #BE5E37;
  --brand-700: #92482a;
  --brand-800: #7F3E24;
  --brand-900: #5C301E;
  --brand-950: #3A1E13;
  --brand: #92482a;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCDC0;
  --brand-hover: #763A22;
  --brand-pressed: #5B2D1A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241814;
    --brand-ink: #EEDBD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF6F4',
        100: '#F6EDE9',
        200: '#EED7CE',
        300: '#E6BAA8',
        400: '#D9977C',
        500: '#CD7551',
        600: '#BE5E37',
        700: '#92482a',
        800: '#7F3E24',
        900: '#5C301E',
        950: '#3A1E13',
        DEFAULT: '#92482a',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF6F4,
  '100': #F6EDE9,
  '200': #EED7CE,
  '300': #E6BAA8,
  '400': #D9977C,
  '500': #CD7551,
  '600': #BE5E37,
  '700': #92482a,
  '800': #7F3E24,
  '900': #5C301E,
  '950': #3A1E13,
);
$brand-base: #92482a;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF6F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6EDE9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EED7CE", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E6BAA8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D9977C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CD7551", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#BE5E37", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#92482a", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7F3E24", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5C301E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3A1E13", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #92482a · 6.60:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.60:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.18:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #92482a as text scores 6.60:1 on white and 3.18:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F9EFEB at 5.84:1.

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
#92482a · 6.60:1
AA on whitealready passes
#92482a
The quick fox
#8A4428 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−2% L
#8A4428
The quick fox
#B65A34 · 4.50:1
AA on black+9% L
#B65A34
The quick fox
#D18160 · 7.02:1
AAA on black+23% L
#D18160

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #92482A 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
#92482a on white: 6.60:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#92482a on black: 3.18:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #92482a as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #92482a.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.60:1AaAa
Slate 506.31:1AaAa
Slate 1006.02:1AaAa
Slate 2005.35:1AaAa
Slate 3004.44:1AaAa
Slate 4002.57:1AaAa
Slate 5001.39:1AaAa
Slate 6001.15:1AaAa
Slate 7001.57:1AaAa
Slate 8002.22:1AaAa
Slate 9002.71:1AaAa
Black3.18:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #5C5327
deuteranopia · #6E6329
tritanopia · #A03941

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. #92482a 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.

#FBF6F4
#F6EDE9
#EED7CE
#E6BAA8
#D9977C
#CD7551
#BE5E37
#92482a
#7F3E24
#5C301E
#3A1E13
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FBF6F4Darkest = 950 · #3A1E13Text 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 0.027 41.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 41.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.065 41.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.085 41.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.100 41.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.109 41.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.109 41.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.102 41.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.091 41.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.076 41.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.060 41.9);
}

Colors that work with #92482a

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#EDCDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B624B
Captions on the surface
Accent#269296
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#63311C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9EFEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241814
Dark-mode background
Hover#763A22
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5B2D1A
Two steps down
Disabled#AD8C7F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#AC4B24
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #92482a

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
  • 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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • 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#2A7492
Analogous left#922A40
Analogous right#927C2A
Split-complement 1#2A927C
Split-complement 2#2A4092
Triadic 1#2A9248
Triadic 2#482A92
Tetradic#40922A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°17°

#92482a sits at 17°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.3%
Green28.2%
Blue16.5%
R · 0–255
146
0x92
G · 0–255
72
0x48
B · 0–255
42
0x2a

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta50.7%
Yellow71.2%
Key (black)42.7%

Total ink coverage is 165%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#92482a text on a black background

contrast 3.18:1

Card sample

#92482a text on a white background

contrast 6.60:1

Card sample

#92482a on grey

6.02:1

#92482a on its own surface

6.14:1

#92482a on its dark surface

2.62:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #92482a;
Background color
Panel with #92482a background
background-color: #92482a;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #92482a;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(146, 72, 42, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(146, 72, 42, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #92482a;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #92482a, #928D2A);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #92482a, #7D922A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #92482a;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #92482a;
caret-color: #92482a;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #92482a;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9EFEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #92482a;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#92482a 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #92482a 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(146, 72, 42, 0.5)
rgb(146 72 42 / 50%)
#92482a80
hsl(17 55% 37% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #92482a 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#92482a1a#F4EDEA
20%#92482a33#E9DAD4
40%#92482a66#D3B6AA
60%#92482a99#BE917F
80%#92482acc#A86D55

Gradients from #92482a

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, #C26038, #92482a 45%, #63311C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #92482a, #777A23);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #92482a, #2A7492);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CC714C 0%, #92482a 45%, #63311C 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%, #BA355C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AA9A31 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #63311C 0%, transparent 65%), #92482a;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #92482a

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.

#92482a 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 3.18:1 — lift it to #B65A34 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.

#92482a, answered

What color is #92482a?

#92482a is a dark vivid orange, closest to Sienna (ΔE2000 4.3). It sits at 17° on the hue wheel with 55% saturation and 37% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #92482a?

rgb(146, 72, 42) — 146 red, 72 green and 42 blue out of 255, or 57.3% / 28.2% / 16.5% by channel.

What is #92482a in HSL and HSV?

hsl(17, 55%, 37%) and hsv(17, 71%, 57%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #92482a a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1091 and perceived brightness is 38%, so white text on it reaches 6.60:1.

Should I use black or white text on #92482a?

White. It scores 6.60:1 against #92482a, versus 3.18:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #92482a accessible on a white background?

#92482a on white scores 6.60:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #92482a?

#2A7492 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2A927C and #2A4092, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #92482a?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCDC0 for borders, #9B624B for secondary text, #269296 as an accent and #63311C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #922A40 and #927C2A stays calm, while #2A7492 is the loudest partner.

What is #92482a in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 51%, 71%, 43%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #92482a warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 7 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #A65D30; nudged cooler, #942831.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #92482a?

The red family — its 500 step is #ef4444, ΔE2000 20.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #92482a as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #92482a in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#92482a] or text-[#92482a], 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 #92482a with 50% opacity?

rgba(146, 72, 42, 0.5), or #92482a80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C9A495; over black, #492415.

Is #92482a a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #993333, ΔE2000 10.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #92482a 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 #92482a?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C26038, #92482a 45%, #63311C). For more colour, a short hue run to #777A23 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #92482a in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #92482a at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.