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#934215

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Clay

RGB
147, 66, 21
HSL
21°, 75%, 33%
CMYK
0, 55, 86, 42
Luminance
0.1015

#934215 is a dark electric orange, 21° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.93:1). As text it scores 6.93:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Saddle Brown, nearest Tailwind family is red.

hsl(21 75% 33%)rgb(147 66 21)Base step 800AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #934215 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#934215
Hue
21°
orange
Saturation
75%
electric
Lightness
33%
dark
Brightness
58%
HSV value
Perceived
37%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1015
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
6.93:1
Closest name
Saddle Brown
ΔE2000 2.9
Chroma
51.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.478
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
red
500 · ΔE 22.4
Web-safe
#993300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue21° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness33%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #934215.

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
Red61%
Green38%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#934215
HEX (8-digit)#934215ff
RGBrgb(147, 66, 21)
RGBArgba(147, 66, 21, 1)
HSLhsl(21, 75%, 33%)
HSV / HSBhsv(21, 86%, 58%)
HWBhwb(21 8% 42%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 55%, 86%, 42%)
LABlab(38.1 31.5 41.2)
LCHlch(38.1 51.9 52.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.478 0.122 45.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.12, 10.16, 1.93)
Decimal9650709
Display P3color(display-p3 0.576 0.259 0.082)
Web-safe#993300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #934215;
background-color: #934215;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #934215;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#934215] bg-[#934215]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #934215;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.576, green: 0.259, blue: 0.082)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.576, green: 0.259, blue: 0.082, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#934215</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF934215)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF934215)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(21, 66, 147)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(147, 66, 21)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(147, 66, 21)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 147, 66, 21)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5765f, 0.2588f, 0.0824f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{147,66,21}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #934215 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #934215 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#703210, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #934215 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: #FCF6F3;
  --brand-100: #F9EDE7;
  --brand-200: #F4D8C8;
  --brand-300: #F1BB9D;
  --brand-400: #EA996C;
  --brand-500: #E3773B;
  --brand-600: #D6601F;
  --brand-700: #B35019;
  --brand-800: #934215;
  --brand-900: #673113;
  --brand-950: #411F0C;
  --brand: #934215;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD0C0;
  --brand-hover: #743411;
  --brand-pressed: #54260C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF6F3',
        100: '#F9EDE7',
        200: '#F4D8C8',
        300: '#F1BB9D',
        400: '#EA996C',
        500: '#E3773B',
        600: '#D6601F',
        700: '#B35019',
        800: '#934215',
        900: '#673113',
        950: '#411F0C',
        DEFAULT: '#934215',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF6F3,
  '100': #F9EDE7,
  '200': #F4D8C8,
  '300': #F1BB9D,
  '400': #EA996C,
  '500': #E3773B,
  '600': #D6601F,
  '700': #B35019,
  '800': #934215,
  '900': #673113,
  '950': #411F0C,
);
$brand-base: #934215;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF6F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9EDE7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F4D8C8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F1BB9D", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EA996C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E3773B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D6601F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B35019", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#934215", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#673113", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#411F0C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #934215 · 6.93:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.93:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.03:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #934215 as text scores 6.93:1 on white and 3.03:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FCF0E9 at 6.20:1.

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
#934215 · 6.93:1
AA on whitealready passes
#934215
The quick fox
#8E4014 · 7.26:1
AAA on white−1% L
#8E4014
The quick fox
#BF561B · 4.56:1
AA on black+10% L
#BF561B
The quick fox
#E4793F · 7.11:1
AAA on black+24% L
#E4793F

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #934215 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
#934215 on white: 6.93:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#934215 on black: 3.03:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #934215 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #934215.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.93:1AaAa
Slate 506.62:1AaAa
Slate 1006.32:1AaAa
Slate 2005.62:1AaAa
Slate 3004.67:1AaAa
Slate 4002.70:1AaAa
Slate 5001.46:1AaAa
Slate 6001.09:1AaAa
Slate 7001.49:1AaAa
Slate 8002.11:1AaAa
Slate 9002.58:1AaAa
Black3.03:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #594E0D
deuteranopia · #6D6112
tritanopia · #A22F39

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. #934215 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.

#FCF6F3
#F9EDE7
#F4D8C8
#F1BB9D
#EA996C
#E3773B
#D6601F
#B35019
#934215
#673113
#411F0C
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FCF6F3Darkest = 950 · #411F0CText 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 0.031 45.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.049 45.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.073 45.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.095 45.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.113 45.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.122 45.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.122 45.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.115 45.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.103 45.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.086 45.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.067 45.5);
}

Colors that work with #934215

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#EDD0C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B674B
Captions on the surface
Accent#128896
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#703210
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCF0E9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#743411
One step down in lightness
Pressed#54260C
Two steps down
Disabled#A58573
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#AE470E
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 #934215

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.

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
  • Weight67/100
  • 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#156693
Analogous left#931527
Analogous right#938115
Split-complement 1#159381
Split-complement 2#152793
Triadic 1#159342
Triadic 2#421593
Tetradic#279315
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°21°

#934215 sits at 21°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.6%
Green25.9%
Blue8.2%
R · 0–255
147
0x93
G · 0–255
66
0x42
B · 0–255
21
0x15

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta55.1%
Yellow85.7%
Key (black)42.4%

Total ink coverage is 183%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#934215 text on a black background

contrast 3.03:1

Card sample

#934215 text on a white background

contrast 6.93:1

Card sample

#934215 on grey

6.32:1

#934215 on its own surface

6.45:1

#934215 on its dark surface

2.46:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #934215;
Background color
Panel with #934215 background
background-color: #934215;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #934215;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(147, 66, 21, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(147, 66, 21, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #934215;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #934215, #909315);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #934215, #709315);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #934215;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #934215;
caret-color: #934215;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #934215;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCF0E9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #934215;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#934215 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #934215 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(147, 66, 21, 0.5)
rgb(147 66 21 / 50%)
#93421580
hsl(21 75% 33% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #934215 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9342151a#F4ECE8
20%#93421533#E9D9D0
40%#93421566#D4B3A1
60%#93421599#BE8E73
80%#934215cc#A96844

Gradients from #934215

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, #C85A1D, #934215 45%, #703210);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #934215, #6D7811);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #934215, #156693);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E06724 0%, #934215 45%, #703210 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%, #BF1B41 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AEA519 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #703210 0%, transparent 65%), #934215;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #934215

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.

#934215 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 3.03:1 — lift it to #BF561B 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.

#934215, answered

What color is #934215?

#934215 is a dark electric orange, closest to Saddle Brown (ΔE2000 2.9). It sits at 21° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 33% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #934215?

rgb(147, 66, 21) — 147 red, 66 green and 21 blue out of 255, or 57.6% / 25.9% / 8.2% by channel.

What is #934215 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(21, 75%, 33%) and hsv(21, 86%, 58%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #934215 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1015 and perceived brightness is 37%, so white text on it reaches 6.93:1.

Should I use black or white text on #934215?

White. It scores 6.93:1 against #934215, versus 3.03:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #934215 accessible on a white background?

#934215 on white scores 6.93:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #934215?

#156693 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #159381 and #152793, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #934215?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDD0C0 for borders, #9B674B for secondary text, #128896 as an accent and #703210 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #931527 and #938115 stays calm, while #156693 is the loudest partner.

What is #934215 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 55%, 86%, 42%). 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 #934215 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 #A95218; nudged cooler, #941315.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #934215?

The red family — its 500 step is #ef4444, ΔE2000 22.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #934215 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #934215 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#934215] or text-[#934215], 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 #934215 with 50% opacity?

rgba(147, 66, 21, 0.5), or #93421580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C9A18A; over black, #4A210B.

Is #934215 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #993300, ΔE2000 4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #934215 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 #934215?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C85A1D, #934215 45%, #703210). For more colour, a short hue run to #6D7811 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #934215 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #934215 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.