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#b19082

a balanced, soft orange · warm · closest name: Rosy Brown

Token name suggestion: Signal Apricot

RGB
177, 144, 130
HSL
18°, 23%, 60%
CMYK
0, 19, 27, 31
Luminance
0.3091

#b19082 is a balanced soft orange, 18° on the wheel and 21/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.18:1). As text it scores 2.92:1 on white — use #946D5C instead. Nearest name is Rosy Brown, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(18 23% 60%)rgb(177 144 130)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #b19082 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#b19082
Hue
18°
orange
Saturation
23%
soft
Lightness
60%
balanced
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
60%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3091
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
21/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
7.18:1
Closest name
Rosy Brown
ΔE2000 7.8
Chroma
15.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.680
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 16.8
Web-safe
#999999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue18° of 360°
Saturation23%
Lightness60%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #b19082.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool21% 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%
Green65%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#b19082
HEX (8-digit)#b19082ff
RGBrgb(177, 144, 130)
RGBArgba(177, 144, 130, 1)
HSLhsl(18, 23%, 60%)
HSV / HSBhsv(18, 27%, 69%)
HWBhwb(18 51% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 19%, 27%, 31%)
LABlab(62.4 10.3 12.1)
LCHlch(62.4 15.9 49.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.680 0.045 44.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(32.13, 30.91, 25.39)
Decimal11636866
Display P3color(display-p3 0.694 0.565 0.510)
Web-safe#999999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #b19082;
background-color: #b19082;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #b19082;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#b19082] bg-[#b19082]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #b19082;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.694, green: 0.565, blue: 0.510)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.694, green: 0.565, blue: 0.510, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#B19082</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFB19082)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFB19082)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(130, 144, 177)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(177, 144, 130)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(177, 144, 130)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 177, 144, 130)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6941f, 0.5647f, 0.5098f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{177,144,130}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #b19082 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #b19082 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4F3A31, #E7DED9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #b19082 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: #F9F7F6;
  --brand-100: #F2EFED;
  --brand-200: #E5DBD7;
  --brand-300: #D4C2BA;
  --brand-400: #BEA397;
  --brand-500: #b19082;
  --brand-600: #976F5E;
  --brand-700: #7E5C4E;
  --brand-800: #654A3F;
  --brand-900: #4A3830;
  --brand-950: #2E231E;
  --brand: #b19082;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F7F6;
  --brand-border: #E0D2CD;
  --brand-hover: #A37C6C;
  --brand-pressed: #916B5A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #231916;
    --brand-ink: #E7DED9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F7F6',
        100: '#F2EFED',
        200: '#E5DBD7',
        300: '#D4C2BA',
        400: '#BEA397',
        500: '#b19082',
        600: '#976F5E',
        700: '#7E5C4E',
        800: '#654A3F',
        900: '#4A3830',
        950: '#2E231E',
        DEFAULT: '#b19082',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F7F6,
  '100': #F2EFED,
  '200': #E5DBD7,
  '300': #D4C2BA,
  '400': #BEA397,
  '500': #b19082,
  '600': #976F5E,
  '700': #7E5C4E,
  '800': #654A3F,
  '900': #4A3830,
  '950': #2E231E,
);
$brand-base: #b19082;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F7F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2EFED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5DBD7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D4C2BA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BEA397", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#b19082", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#976F5E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7E5C4E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#654A3F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4A3830", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E231E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #b19082 · 7.18:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.92:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.18:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #b19082 as text scores 2.92:1 on white and 7.18:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4F3A31 at 3.62:1.

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
#946D5C · 4.56:1
AA on white−13% L
#946D5C
The quick fox
#6F5145 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−25% L
#6F5145
The quick fox
#b19082 · 7.18:1
AA on blackalready passes
#b19082
The quick fox
#b19082 · 7.18:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#b19082

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #AF8D7F 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
#b19082 on white: 2.92:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#b19082 on black: 7.18:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #b19082 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #b19082.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.92:1AaAa
Slate 502.80:1AaAa
Slate 1002.67:1AaAa
Slate 2002.37:1AaAa
Slate 3001.97:1AaAa
Slate 4001.14:1AaAa
Slate 5001.63:1AaAa
Slate 6002.59:1AaAa
Slate 7003.54:1AaAa
Slate 8005.00:1AaAa
Slate 9006.10:1AaAa
Black7.18:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #989381
deuteranopia · #A09A82
tritanopia · #BA8B8C

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. #b19082 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F7F6
#F2EFED
#E5DBD7
#D4C2BA
#BEA397
#b19082
#976F5E
#7E5C4E
#654A3F
#4A3830
#2E231E
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9F7F6Darkest = 950 · #2E231EText 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 0.011 44.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.018 44.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.027 44.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.035 44.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.041 44.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.045 44.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.045 44.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.042 44.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.038 44.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.032 44.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.025 44.2);
}

Colors that work with #b19082

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#F9F7F6
Tinted page background
Border#E0D2CD
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8D6858
Captions on the surface
Accent#4A7F82
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4F3A31
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5F1EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#231916
Dark-mode background
Hover#A37C6C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#916B5A
Two steps down
Disabled#DCCEC8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C29785
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #b19082

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #4F3A31
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #AF8D7F

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

Hard to make feel premium, and it collides with the "caution" band in status systems.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight40/100
  • 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#82A3B1
Analogous left#B1828B
Analogous right#B1A882
Split-complement 1#82B1A8
Split-complement 2#828BB1
Triadic 1#82B190
Triadic 2#9082B1
Tetradic#8BB182
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°18°

#b19082 sits at 18°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red69.4%
Green56.5%
Blue51.0%
R · 0–255
177
0xb1
G · 0–255
144
0x90
B · 0–255
130
0x82

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta18.6%
Yellow26.6%
Key (black)30.6%

Total ink coverage is 76%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#b19082 text on a black background

contrast 7.18:1

Card sample

#b19082 text on a white background

contrast 2.92:1

Card sample

#b19082 on grey

2.67:1

#b19082 on its own surface

2.74:1

#b19082 on its dark surface

5.88:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #b19082;
Background color
Panel with #b19082 background
background-color: #b19082;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #b19082;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(177, 144, 130, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(177, 144, 130, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #b19082;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #b19082, #B1AF82);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #b19082, #A7B182);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #b19082;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #b19082;
caret-color: #b19082;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #b19082;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5F1EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #b19082;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#b19082 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #b19082 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(177, 144, 130, 0.5)
rgb(177 144 130 / 50%)
#b1908280
hsl(18 23% 60% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #b19082 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#b190821a#F7F4F3
20%#b1908233#EFE9E6
40%#b1908266#E0D3CD
60%#b1908299#D0BCB4
80%#b19082cc#C1A69B

Gradients from #b19082

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, #C9B1A8, #b19082 45%, #4F3A31);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #b19082, #A3A56F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #b19082, #82A3B1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D4C2BB 0%, #b19082 45%, #4F3A31 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F7F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #C5A1AB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #BDB895 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4F3A31 0%, transparent 65%), #b19082;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #b19082

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.

#b19082 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 7.18:1.

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.

#b19082, answered

What color is #b19082?

#b19082 is a balanced soft orange, closest to Rosy Brown (ΔE2000 7.8). It sits at 18° on the hue wheel with 23% saturation and 60% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #b19082?

rgb(177, 144, 130) — 177 red, 144 green and 130 blue out of 255, or 69.4% / 56.5% / 51% by channel.

What is #b19082 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(18, 23%, 60%) and hsv(18, 27%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #b19082 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3091 and perceived brightness is 60%, so black text on it reaches 7.18:1.

Should I use black or white text on #b19082?

Black. It scores 7.18:1 against #b19082, versus 2.92:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #b19082 accessible on a white background?

#b19082 on white scores 2.92:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #946D5C to reach 4.5:1, or #6F5145 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #b19082?

#82A3B1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #82B1A8 and #828BB1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #b19082?

For interface work: #F9F7F6 as the surface, #E0D2CD for borders, #8D6858 for secondary text, #4A7F82 as an accent and #4F3A31 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B1828B and #B1A882 stays calm, while #82A3B1 is the loudest partner.

What is #b19082 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 19%, 27%, 31%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #b19082 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 21 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B19582; nudged cooler, #B38083.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #b19082?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 16.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #b19082 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #b19082 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#b19082] or text-[#b19082], 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 #b19082 with 50% opacity?

rgba(177, 144, 130, 0.5), or #b1908280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D8C8C1; over black, #594841.

Is #b19082 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #999999, ΔE2000 13.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #b19082 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 #b19082?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C9B1A8, #b19082 45%, #4F3A31). For more colour, a short hue run to #A3A56F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #b19082 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #b19082 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.