#753A21

sRGB: 117 / 58 / 33

Wandering spirits dance upon still waters
Solitary lanterns awaken beneath celestial skies
Distant echoes surrender to silence

#753A21 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 117 red, 58 green and 33 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 17.9° lands in the orange region. Its 56.0% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 29.4% 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 (8.81:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 117, 58, 33
HSL: 17.86°, 56.00%, 29.41%
HSV / HSB: 17.86°, 71.79%, 45.88%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 50.43%, 71.79%, 54.12%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 9.123, 6.918, 2.294
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 31.620, 23.675, 26.871
WCAG relative luminance: 0.06918
24-bit decimal: 7682593

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 #753A21 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: 2.38:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 8.81:1

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

#215C75 sits half a turn (180°) from #753A21 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.

#753A21 #215C75

Analogous

#752132 and #756421 sit 30° to either side of #753A21. 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.

#752132 #753A21 #756421

Triadic

#753A21, #21753A and #3A2175 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#753A21 #21753A #3A2175

Split complementary

Start at #753A21 and look across the wheel. #217564 and #213275 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#753A21 #217564 #213275

Square

Starting with #753A21, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #327521, #215C75, then #642175. Across the square, #753A21 pairs with #215C75, and #327521 with #642175.

#753A21 #327521 #215C75 #642175

Tetradic

#753A21 and #215C75 are opposites, as are #5C7521 and #3A2175. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#753A21 #5C7521 #215C75 #3A2175

Tints

Mixing #753A21 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #91614D, keeps 80% of the original. By #E3D8D3, the mixture is 80% white.

#753A21 #91614D #AC897A #C8B0A6 #E3D8D3 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #753A21 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #5E2E1A, keeps 80% of the original. By #170C07, the mixture is 80% black.

#753A21 #5E2E1A #462314 #2F170D #170C07 #000000

Tones

Mixing #753A21 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #774834, keeps 80% of the original. By #7E726D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#753A21 #774834 #795647 #7C645A #7E726D #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

#753A21

RGB

rgb(117 58 33)

HSL

hsl(17.857 56.000% 29.412%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #753A21;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#753A21 uses 117 red, 58 green and 33 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 45.9%

Green 22.7%

Blue 12.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #753A21 is 0.0% cyan, 50.4% magenta, 71.8% yellow and 54.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 50.4%

Yellow 71.8%

Black 54.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #773322. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #732 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #753A21 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #663333, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #773322 Nearest web-safe: #663333

Gradient to complement

#753A21 #67402F #59453D #4B4B4B #3D5159 #2F5667 #215C75

Color vision previews

Compare how #753A21 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.

#4A421E

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.

#584F20

Tritanopia

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

#802E34

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.

#5C411F

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.

#614920

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#76382A

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.

#63433A

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 0.17789 G 0.04231 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 0.42862 G 0.23960 B 0.15149

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.15382 G 0.04681 B 0.01995

CIE xyY

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

x 0.498 y 0.377 Y 6.918

CMY

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

C % 54.118 M % 77.255 Y % 87.059

Binary RGB

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

01110101 00111010 00100001