#5E4621

sRGB: 94 / 70 / 33

Velvet petals fracture ancient heavens
Sleeping valleys blossom beneath falling stars
Distant echoes surrender to silence

#5E4621 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 94 red, 70 green and 33 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 36.4° lands in the orange region. Its 48.0% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 24.9% 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 (8.85:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 94, 70, 33
HSL: 36.39°, 48.03%, 24.90%
HSV / HSB: 36.39°, 64.89%, 36.86%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 25.53%, 64.89%, 63.14%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 7.081, 6.870, 2.392
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 31.509, 5.604, 25.902
WCAG relative luminance: 0.06870
24-bit decimal: 6178337

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 #5E4621 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: 2.37:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 8.85:1

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

#21395E sits half a turn (180°) from #5E4621 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.

#5E4621 #21395E

Analogous

#5E2821 and #585E21 sit 30° to either side of #5E4621. 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.

#5E2821 #5E4621 #585E21

Triadic

#5E4621, #215E46 and #46215E are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#5E4621 #215E46 #46215E

Split complementary

Start at #5E4621 and look across the wheel. #21585E and #28215E sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#5E4621 #21585E #28215E

Square

Starting with #5E4621, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #215E28, #21395E, then #5E2157. Across the square, #5E4621 pairs with #21395E, and #215E28 with #5E2157.

#5E4621 #215E28 #21395E #5E2157

Tetradic

#5E4621 and #21395E are opposites, as are #395E21 and #46215E. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#5E4621 #395E21 #21395E #46215E

Tints

Mixing #5E4621 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #7E6B4D, keeps 80% of the original. By #DFDAD3, the mixture is 80% white.

#5E4621 #7E6B4D #9E907A #BFB5A6 #DFDAD3 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #5E4621 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #4B381A, keeps 80% of the original. By #130E07, the mixture is 80% black.

#5E4621 #4B381A #382A14 #261C0D #130E07 #000000

Tones

Mixing #5E4621 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #655234, keeps 80% of the original. By #79746D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#5E4621 #655234 #6C5D47 #72695A #79746D #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

#5E4621

RGB

rgb(94 70 33)

HSL

hsl(36.393 48.031% 24.902%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #5E4621;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#5E4621 uses 94 red, 70 green and 33 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 36.9%

Green 27.5%

Blue 12.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #5E4621 is 0.0% cyan, 25.5% magenta, 64.9% yellow and 63.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 25.5%

Yellow 64.9%

Black 63.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #664422. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #642 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #5E4621 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #663333, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #664422 Nearest web-safe: #663333

Gradient to complement

#5E4621 #54442B #4A4235 #404040 #353D4A #2B3B54 #21395E

Color vision previews

Compare how #5E4621 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.

#4F471D

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.

#554D22

Tritanopia

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

#663F3E

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.

#55471F

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.

#574A21

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#5F452E

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#4A4A4A

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.

#55483A

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 0.11193 G 0.06125 B 0.01521

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 0.35409 G 0.27825 B 0.15254

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.10293 G 0.06293 B 0.02019

CIE xyY

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

x 0.433 y 0.420 Y 6.870

CMY

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

C % 63.137 M % 72.549 Y % 87.059

Binary RGB

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

01011110 01000110 00100001