#894321

sRGB: 137 / 67 / 33

Golden embers surge toward distant shores
Sleeping valleys flicker through endless evenings
Distant echoes surrender to silence

#894321 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 137 red, 67 green and 33 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 19.6° lands in the orange region. Its 61.2% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 33.3% 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 (7.27:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 137, 67, 33
HSL: 19.62°, 61.18%, 33.33%
HSV / HSB: 19.62°, 75.91%, 53.73%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 51.09%, 75.91%, 46.27%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 12.598, 9.443, 2.598
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 36.824, 27.242, 33.500
WCAG relative luminance: 0.09442
24-bit decimal: 8995617

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 #894321 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: 2.89:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 7.27:1

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

#216789 sits half a turn (180°) from #894321 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.

#894321 #216789

Analogous

#892133 and #897721 sit 30° to either side of #894321. 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.

#892133 #894321 #897721

Triadic

#894321, #218943 and #432189 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#894321 #218943 #432189

Split complementary

Start at #894321 and look across the wheel. #218977 and #213389 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#894321 #218977 #213389

Square

Starting with #894321, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #338921, #216789, then #772189. Across the square, #894321 pairs with #216789, and #338921 with #772189.

#894321 #338921 #216789 #772189

Tetradic

#894321 and #216789 are opposites, as are #678921 and #432189. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#894321 #678921 #216789 #432189

Tints

Mixing #894321 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A1694D, keeps 80% of the original. By #E7D9D3, the mixture is 80% white.

#894321 #A1694D #B88E7A #D0B4A6 #E7D9D3 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #894321 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6E361A, keeps 80% of the original. By #1B0D07, the mixture is 80% black.

#894321 #6E361A #522814 #371B0D #1B0D07 #000000

Tones

Mixing #894321 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #874F34, keeps 80% of the original. By #82746D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#894321 #874F34 #855B47 #84685A #82746D #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

#894321

RGB

rgb(137 67 33)

HSL

hsl(19.615 61.176% 33.333%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #894321;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#894321 uses 137 red, 67 green and 33 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 53.7%

Green 26.3%

Blue 12.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #894321 is 0.0% cyan, 51.1% magenta, 75.9% yellow and 46.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 51.1%

Yellow 75.9%

Black 46.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #884422. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #842 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #894321 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #993333, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #884422 Nearest web-safe: #993333

Gradient to complement

#894321 #784932 #664F44 #555555 #445B66 #326178 #216789

Color vision previews

Compare how #894321 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.

#564D1D

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.

#675D20

Tritanopia

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

#96343C

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.

#6C4C1E

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.

#72551F

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#8A412E

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#575757

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.

#734E42

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 0.05613 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 0.50180 G 0.27746 B 0.16083

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.21571 G 0.06257 B 0.02218

CIE xyY

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

x 0.511 y 0.383 Y 9.443

CMY

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

C % 46.275 M % 73.725 Y % 87.059

Binary RGB

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

10001001 01000011 00100001