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#926844

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Apricot

RGB
146, 104, 68
HSL
28°, 36%, 42%
CMYK
0, 29, 53, 43
Luminance
0.1643

#926844 is a dark soft orange, 28° on the wheel and 1/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.90:1). As text it scores 4.90:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Sienna, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(28 36% 42%)rgb(146 104 68)Base step 700AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #926844 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#926844
Hue
28°
orange
Saturation
36%
soft
Lightness
42%
dark
Brightness
57%
HSV value
Perceived
45%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1643
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
1/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
4.90:1
Closest name
Sienna
ΔE2000 10
Chroma
29.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.552
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 15.1
Web-safe
#996633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue28° of 360°
Saturation36%
Lightness42%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #926844.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool1% 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
Red37%
Green60%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#926844
HEX (8-digit)#926844ff
RGBrgb(146, 104, 68)
RGBArgba(146, 104, 68, 1)
HSLhsl(28, 36%, 42%)
HSV / HSBhsv(28, 53%, 57%)
HWBhwb(28 27% 43%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 29%, 53%, 43%)
LABlab(47.5 12.5 26.8)
LCHlch(47.5 29.6 65.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.552 0.074 61.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(17.85, 16.43, 7.70)
Decimal9594948
Display P3color(display-p3 0.573 0.408 0.267)
Web-safe#996633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #926844;
background-color: #926844;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #926844;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#926844] bg-[#926844]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #926844;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.573, green: 0.408, blue: 0.267)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.573, green: 0.408, blue: 0.267, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#926844</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF926844)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF926844)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(68, 104, 146)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(146, 104, 68)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(146, 104, 68)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 146, 104, 68)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5725f, 0.4078f, 0.2667f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{146,104,68}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #926844 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #926844 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#573E29, #ECE0D5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #926844 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: #FAF7F5;
  --brand-100: #F4EFEB;
  --brand-200: #E8DDD3;
  --brand-300: #DBC5B2;
  --brand-400: #C9A98C;
  --brand-500: #B88C66;
  --brand-600: #A7774E;
  --brand-700: #926844;
  --brand-800: #6F4F34;
  --brand-900: #523C29;
  --brand-950: #332519;
  --brand: #926844;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F5;
  --brand-border: #E5D5C7;
  --brand-hover: #7A5739;
  --brand-pressed: #61452D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241B14;
    --brand-ink: #ECE0D5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF7F5',
        100: '#F4EFEB',
        200: '#E8DDD3',
        300: '#DBC5B2',
        400: '#C9A98C',
        500: '#B88C66',
        600: '#A7774E',
        700: '#926844',
        800: '#6F4F34',
        900: '#523C29',
        950: '#332519',
        DEFAULT: '#926844',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF7F5,
  '100': #F4EFEB,
  '200': #E8DDD3,
  '300': #DBC5B2,
  '400': #C9A98C,
  '500': #B88C66,
  '600': #A7774E,
  '700': #926844,
  '800': #6F4F34,
  '900': #523C29,
  '950': #332519,
);
$brand-base: #926844;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF7F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4EFEB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8DDD3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DBC5B2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C9A98C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B88C66", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A7774E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#926844", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6F4F34", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#523C29", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#332519", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #926844 · 4.90:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.90:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.29:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #926844 as text scores 4.90:1 on white and 4.29:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7F2EE at 4.41:1.

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
#926844 · 4.90:1
AA on whitealready passes
#926844
The quick fox
#735236 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−9% L
#735236
The quick fox
#996D47 · 4.63:1
AA on black+2% L
#996D47
The quick fox
#B98E69 · 7.14:1
AAA on black+15% L
#B98E69

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #926844 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
#926844 on white: 4.90:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#926844 on black: 4.29:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #926844 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #926844.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.90:1AaAa
Slate 504.68:1AaAa
Slate 1004.47:1AaAa
Slate 2003.97:1AaAa
Slate 3003.30:1AaAa
Slate 4001.91:1AaAa
Slate 5001.03:1AaAa
Slate 6001.55:1AaAa
Slate 7002.11:1AaAa
Slate 8002.99:1AaAa
Slate 9003.64:1AaAa
Black4.29:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #756B41
deuteranopia · #7F7544
tritanopia · #9E5F5F

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. #926844 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.

#FAF7F5
#F4EFEB
#E8DDD3
#DBC5B2
#C9A98C
#B88C66
#A7774E
#926844
#6F4F34
#523C29
#332519
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FAF7F5Darkest = 950 · #332519Text 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 0.019 61.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.030 61.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.044 61.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.058 61.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.068 61.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.074 61.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.074 61.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.070 61.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.062 61.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.052 61.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.041 61.0);
}

Colors that work with #926844

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#FAF7F5
Tinted page background
Border#E5D5C7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B704B
Captions on the surface
Accent#408496
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#573E29
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7F2EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241B14
Dark-mode background
Hover#7A5739
One step down in lightness
Pressed#61452D
Two steps down
Disabled#B7A28F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#AC713F
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 #926844

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
  • Weight58/100
  • 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#446E92
Analogous left#924447
Analogous right#928F44
Split-complement 1#44928F
Split-complement 2#444792
Triadic 1#449268
Triadic 2#684492
Tetradic#479244
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°28°

#926844 sits at 28°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.3%
Green40.8%
Blue26.7%
R · 0–255
146
0x92
G · 0–255
104
0x68
B · 0–255
68
0x44

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta28.8%
Yellow53.4%
Key (black)42.7%

Total ink coverage is 125%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#926844 text on a black background

contrast 4.29:1

Card sample

#926844 text on a white background

contrast 4.90:1

Card sample

#926844 on grey

4.47:1

#926844 on its own surface

4.59:1

#926844 on its dark surface

3.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #926844;
Background color
Panel with #926844 background
background-color: #926844;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #926844;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(146, 104, 68, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(146, 104, 68, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #926844;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #926844, #889244);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #926844, #759244);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #926844;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #926844;
caret-color: #926844;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #926844;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7F2EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #926844;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#926844 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #926844 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, 104, 68, 0.5)
rgb(146 104 68 / 50%)
#92684480
hsl(28 36% 42% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #926844 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9268441a#F4F0EC
20%#92684433#E9E1DA
40%#92684466#D3C3B4
60%#92684499#BEA48F
80%#926844cc#A88669

Gradients from #926844

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, #B4865F, #926844 45%, #573E29);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #926844, #6F7D3A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #926844, #446E92);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BE9674 0%, #926844 45%, #573E29 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #B15863 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #A3A74E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #573E29 0%, transparent 65%), #926844;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #926844

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.

#926844 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 4.29:1 — lift it to #996D47 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.

#926844, answered

What color is #926844?

#926844 is a dark soft orange, closest to Sienna (ΔE2000 10). It sits at 28° on the hue wheel with 36% saturation and 42% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #926844?

rgb(146, 104, 68) — 146 red, 104 green and 68 blue out of 255, or 57.3% / 40.8% / 26.7% by channel.

What is #926844 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(28, 36%, 42%) and hsv(28, 53%, 57%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #926844 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1643 and perceived brightness is 45%, so white text on it reaches 4.90:1.

Should I use black or white text on #926844?

White. It scores 4.90:1 against #926844, versus 4.29:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #926844 accessible on a white background?

#926844 on white scores 4.90:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #926844?

#446E92 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #44928F and #444792, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #926844?

For interface work: #FAF7F5 as the surface, #E5D5C7 for borders, #9B704B for secondary text, #408496 as an accent and #573E29 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #924447 and #928F44 stays calm, while #446E92 is the loudest partner.

What is #926844 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 29%, 53%, 43%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #926844 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 1 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #A3724C; nudged cooler, #944A42.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #926844?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 15.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #926844 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #926844 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#926844] or text-[#926844], 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 #926844 with 50% opacity?

rgba(146, 104, 68, 0.5), or #92684480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C9B4A2; over black, #493422.

Is #926844 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #996633, ΔE2000 4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #926844 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 #926844?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B4865F, #926844 45%, #573E29). For more colour, a short hue run to #6F7D3A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #926844 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #926844 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.