#89340A

sRGB: 137 / 52 / 10

Golden embers surge toward distant shores
Solitary lanterns breathe beneath silver clouds
Lost whispers illuminate hidden worlds

#89340A belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 137 red, 52 green and 10 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 19.8° lands in the orange region. Its 86.4% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 28.8% 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 (8.21:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 137, 52, 10
HSL: 19.84°, 86.39%, 28.82%
HSV / HSB: 19.84°, 92.70%, 53.73%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 62.04%, 92.70%, 46.27%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 11.599, 7.797, 1.181
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 33.557, 34.402, 41.169
WCAG relative luminance: 0.07796
24-bit decimal: 8991754

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 #89340A 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: 2.56:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 8.21:1

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

#0A5F89 sits half a turn (180°) from #89340A 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.

#89340A #0A5F89

Analogous

#890A20 and #89730A sit 30° to either side of #89340A. 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.

#890A20 #89340A #89730A

Triadic

#89340A, #0A8934 and #340A89 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#89340A #0A8934 #340A89

Split complementary

Start at #89340A and look across the wheel. #0A8974 and #0A1F89 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#89340A #0A8974 #0A1F89

Square

Starting with #89340A, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #20890A, #0A5F89, then #740A89. Across the square, #89340A pairs with #0A5F89, and #20890A with #740A89.

#89340A #20890A #0A5F89 #740A89

Tetradic

#89340A and #0A5F89 are opposites, as are #5F890A and #340A89. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#89340A #5F890A #0A5F89 #340A89

Tints

Mixing #89340A with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A15D3B, keeps 80% of the original. By #E7D6CE, the mixture is 80% white.

#89340A #A15D3B #B8856C #D0AE9D #E7D6CE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #89340A with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6E2A08, keeps 80% of the original. By #1B0A02, the mixture is 80% black.

#89340A #6E2A08 #521F06 #371504 #1B0A02 #000000

Tones

Mixing #89340A with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #874322, keeps 80% of the original. By #827168, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#89340A #874322 #855239 #846251 #827168 #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

#89340A

RGB

rgb(137 52 10)

HSL

hsl(19.843 86.395% 28.824%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #89340A;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#89340A uses 137 red, 52 green and 10 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 53.7%

Green 20.4%

Blue 3.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #89340A is 0.0% cyan, 62.0% magenta, 92.7% yellow and 46.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 62.0%

Yellow 92.7%

Black 46.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #883311. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #831 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #89340A when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #993300, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #883311 Nearest web-safe: #993300

Gradient to complement

#89340A #743B1F #5F4234 #4A4A4A #34515F #1F5874 #0A5F89

Color vision previews

Compare how #89340A 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.

#4D4302

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.

#615605

Tritanopia

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

#971E2D

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.

#684102

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.

#6E4C04

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#8A321D

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#4F4F4F

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.

#714339

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 0.25016 G 0.03434 B 0.00304

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 0.49762 G 0.22519 B 0.09673

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.21184 G 0.04150 B 0.00952

CIE xyY

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

x 0.564 y 0.379 Y 7.797

CMY

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

C % 46.275 M % 79.608 Y % 96.078

Binary RGB

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

10001001 00110100 00001010