#392C19

sRGB: 57 / 44 / 25

Forgotten dreams surge toward distant shores
Withered branches thunder through timeless canyons
Pale reflections reveal unspoken wonders

#392C19 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 57 red, 44 green and 25 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 35.6° lands in the orange region. Its 39.0% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 16.1% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (13.56:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 57, 44, 25
HSL: 35.63°, 39.02%, 16.08%
HSV / HSB: 35.63°, 56.14%, 22.35%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 22.81%, 56.14%, 77.65%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 2.763, 2.741, 1.303
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 18.977, 2.983, 14.558
WCAG relative luminance: 0.02741
24-bit decimal: 3746841

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #392C19 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 1.55:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 13.56:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#192639 sits half a turn (180°) from #392C19 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#392C19 #192639

Analogous

#391C19 and #363919 sit 30° to either side of #392C19. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#391C19 #392C19 #363919

Triadic

#392C19, #19392C and #2C1939 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#392C19 #19392C #2C1939

Split complementary

Start at #392C19 and look across the wheel. #193639 and #1C1939 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#392C19 #193639 #1C1939

Square

Starting with #392C19, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #19391C, #192639, then #391936. Across the square, #392C19 pairs with #192639, and #19391C with #391936.

#392C19 #19391C #192639 #391936

Tetradic

#392C19 and #192639 are opposites, as are #263919 and #2C1939. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#392C19 #263919 #192639 #2C1939

Tints

Mixing #392C19 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #615647, keeps 80% of the original. By #D7D5D1, the mixture is 80% white.

#392C19 #615647 #888075 #B0ABA3 #D7D5D1 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #392C19 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #2E2314, keeps 80% of the original. By #0B0905, the mixture is 80% black.

#392C19 #2E2314 #221A0F #17120A #0B0905 #000000

Tones

Mixing #392C19 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #473D2E, keeps 80% of the original. By #726F6B, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#392C19 #473D2E #554E42 #645E57 #726F6B #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#392C19

RGB

rgb(57 44 25)

HSL

hsl(35.625 39.024% 16.078%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #392C19;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#392C19 uses 57 red, 44 green and 25 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 22.4%

Green 17.3%

Blue 9.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #392C19 is 0.0% cyan, 22.8% magenta, 56.1% yellow and 77.6% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 22.8%

Yellow 56.1%

Black 77.6%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #333311. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #331 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #392C19 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #333300, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #333311 Nearest web-safe: #333300

Gradient to complement

#392C19 #342B1E #2E2A24 #292929 #24282E #1E2734 #192639

Color vision previews

Compare how #392C19 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#312C18

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#342F19

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#3E2827

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#342C18

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#352E19

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#3A2B1F

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#2E2E2E

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#342D25

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.04092 G 0.02519 B 0.00972

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.21545 G 0.17450 B 0.10839

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.03812 G 0.02571 B 0.01137

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.406 y 0.403 Y 2.741

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 77.647 M % 82.745 Y % 90.196

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

00111001 00101100 00011001