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#a75607

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

Token name suggestion: Slate Clay

RGB
167, 86, 7
HSL
30°, 92%, 34%
CMYK
0, 49, 96, 35
Luminance
0.1489

#a75607 is a dark electric orange, 30° on the wheel and 0/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.28:1). As text it scores 5.28:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Sienna, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(30 92% 34%)rgb(167 86 7)Base step 800AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #a75607 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#a75607
Hue
30°
orange
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
34%
dark
Brightness
65%
HSV value
Perceived
44%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1489
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
0/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.28:1
Closest name
Sienna
ΔE2000 7.9
Chroma
60.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.541
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 18.7
Web-safe
#996600
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue30° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness34%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #a75607.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool0% 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
Red55%
Green45%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#a75607
HEX (8-digit)#a75607ff
RGBrgb(167, 86, 7)
RGBArgba(167, 86, 7, 1)
HSLhsl(30, 92%, 34%)
HSV / HSBhsv(30, 96%, 65%)
HWBhwb(30 3% 35%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 49%, 96%, 35%)
LABlab(45.5 28.9 52.7)
LCHlch(45.5 60.1 61.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.541 0.131 55.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(19.30, 14.89, 2.06)
Decimal10966535
Display P3color(display-p3 0.655 0.337 0.027)
Web-safe#996600

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #a75607;
background-color: #a75607;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #a75607;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#a75607] bg-[#a75607]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #a75607;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.655, green: 0.337, blue: 0.027)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.655, green: 0.337, blue: 0.027, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#A75607</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFA75607)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFA75607)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(7, 86, 167)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(167, 86, 7)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(167, 86, 7)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 167, 86, 7)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6549f, 0.3373f, 0.0275f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{167,86,7}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #a75607 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #a75607 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7A3F05, #EEE0D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #a75607 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: #FDF7F2;
  --brand-100: #FBF0E4;
  --brand-200: #F9DDC3;
  --brand-300: #FBC693;
  --brand-400: #F8AA5D;
  --brand-500: #F68D28;
  --brand-600: #EB790A;
  --brand-700: #C46508;
  --brand-800: #a75607;
  --brand-900: #713D09;
  --brand-950: #472606;
  --brand: #a75607;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD6C0;
  --brand-hover: #854406;
  --brand-pressed: #623304;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241C14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE0D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF7F2',
        100: '#FBF0E4',
        200: '#F9DDC3',
        300: '#FBC693',
        400: '#F8AA5D',
        500: '#F68D28',
        600: '#EB790A',
        700: '#C46508',
        800: '#a75607',
        900: '#713D09',
        950: '#472606',
        DEFAULT: '#a75607',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF7F2,
  '100': #FBF0E4,
  '200': #F9DDC3,
  '300': #FBC693,
  '400': #F8AA5D,
  '500': #F68D28,
  '600': #EB790A,
  '700': #C46508,
  '800': #a75607,
  '900': #713D09,
  '950': #472606,
);
$brand-base: #a75607;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF7F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBF0E4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F9DDC3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FBC693", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F8AA5D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F68D28", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EB790A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C46508", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#a75607", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#713D09", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#472606", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #a75607 · 5.28:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.28:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.98:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #a75607 as text scores 5.28:1 on white and 3.98:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FEF2E7 at 4.79:1.

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
#a75607 · 5.28:1
AA on whitealready passes
#a75607
The quick fox
#8A4706 · 7.04:1
AAA on white−6% L
#8A4706
The quick fox
#B65D08 · 4.56:1
AA on black+3% L
#B65D08
The quick fox
#E7770A · 7.04:1
AAA on black+13% L
#E7770A

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A75607 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
#a75607 on white: 5.28:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#a75607 on black: 3.98:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #a75607 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #a75607.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.28:1AaAa
Slate 505.05:1AaAa
Slate 1004.82:1AaAa
Slate 2004.28:1AaAa
Slate 3003.56:1AaAa
Slate 4002.06:1AaAa
Slate 5001.11:1AaAa
Slate 6001.44:1AaAa
Slate 7001.96:1AaAa
Slate 8002.77:1AaAa
Slate 9003.38:1AaAa
Black3.98:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #6E6000
deuteranopia · #827305
tritanopia · #B84349

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. #a75607 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.

#FDF7F2
#FBF0E4
#F9DDC3
#FBC693
#F8AA5D
#F68D28
#EB790A
#C46508
#a75607
#713D09
#472606
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FDF7F2Darkest = 950 · #472606Text step on white = 800
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 0.033 55.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 55.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.079 55.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.102 55.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.121 55.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.131 55.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.131 55.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.123 55.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.110 55.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.092 55.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.072 55.0);
}

Colors that work with #a75607

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#FAF7F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDD6C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B724B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0382AA
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7A3F05
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEF2E7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241C14
Dark-mode background
Hover#854406
One step down in lightness
Pressed#623304
Two steps down
Disabled#A88F76
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C26000
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 #a75607

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
  • Weight66/100
  • 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#0758A7
Analogous left#A70708
Analogous right#A7A607
Split-complement 1#07A7A6
Split-complement 2#0708A7
Triadic 1#07A756
Triadic 2#5607A7
Tetradic#08A707
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°30°

#a75607 sits at 30°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red65.5%
Green33.7%
Blue2.7%
R · 0–255
167
0xa7
G · 0–255
86
0x56
B · 0–255
7
0x07

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta48.5%
Yellow95.8%
Key (black)34.5%

Total ink coverage is 179%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#a75607 text on a black background

contrast 3.98:1

Card sample

#a75607 text on a white background

contrast 5.28:1

Card sample

#a75607 on grey

4.82:1

#a75607 on its own surface

4.95:1

#a75607 on its dark surface

3.18:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #a75607;
Background color
Panel with #a75607 background
background-color: #a75607;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #a75607;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(167, 86, 7, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(167, 86, 7, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #a75607;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #a75607, #8DA707);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a75607, #65A707);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #a75607;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #a75607;
caret-color: #a75607;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #a75607;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEF2E7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #a75607;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#a75607 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #a75607 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(167, 86, 7, 0.5)
rgb(167 86 7 / 50%)
#a7560780
hsl(30 92% 34% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #a75607 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#a756071a#F6EEE6
20%#a7560733#EDDDCD
40%#a7560766#DCBB9C
60%#a7560799#CA9A6A
80%#a75607cc#B97839

Gradients from #a75607

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, #E27409, #a75607 45%, #7A3F05);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #a75607, #698A06);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a75607, #0758A7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F58314 0%, #a75607 45%, #7A3F05 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D8091C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B6C408 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7A3F05 0%, transparent 65%), #a75607;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #a75607

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.

#a75607 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 3.98:1 — lift it to #B65D08 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.

#a75607, answered

What color is #a75607?

#a75607 is a dark electric orange, closest to Sienna (ΔE2000 7.9). It sits at 30° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 34% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #a75607?

rgb(167, 86, 7) — 167 red, 86 green and 7 blue out of 255, or 65.5% / 33.7% / 2.7% by channel.

What is #a75607 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(30, 92%, 34%) and hsv(30, 96%, 65%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #a75607 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1489 and perceived brightness is 44%, so white text on it reaches 5.28:1.

Should I use black or white text on #a75607?

White. It scores 5.28:1 against #a75607, versus 3.98:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #a75607 accessible on a white background?

#a75607 on white scores 5.28:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #a75607?

#0758A7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #07A7A6 and #0708A7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #a75607?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #EDD6C0 for borders, #9B724B for secondary text, #0382AA as an accent and #7A3F05 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A70708 and #A7A607 stays calm, while #0758A7 is the loudest partner.

What is #a75607 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 49%, 96%, 35%). 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 #a75607 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 0 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BF5B08; nudged cooler, #A91A05.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #a75607?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 18.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #a75607 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #a75607 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#a75607] or text-[#a75607], 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 #a75607 with 50% opacity?

rgba(167, 86, 7, 0.5), or #a7560780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D3AB83; over black, #542B04.

Is #a75607 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #996600, ΔE2000 10.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #a75607 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 #a75607?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E27409, #a75607 45%, #7A3F05). For more colour, a short hue run to #698A06 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #a75607 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #a75607 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.