HEX Color #A05F24 (Saddlebrown)

About #A05F24

At its core, #A05F24 is a dark and moderate hue. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Saddlebrown. Its digital footprint relies on 160 parts red, 95 parts green, and 36 parts blue light.

If you are designing for print, the four-color process is what matters most. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 41% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 28.5° hue, 63.3% saturation, and 38.4% lightness.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Mathematical luminance calculations suggest that #FFFFFF text provides the most optimal reading experience. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#A05F24

RGB160, 95, 36

HSL28.5°, 63.3%, 38.4%

CMYK0%, 41%, 78%, 37%

HSV28.5°, 77.5%, 62.7%

LAB46.7, 21.7, 43.2

XYZ18.9, 15.8, 3.7

Decimal10510116

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#A05F24 #2364A0

Analogous

#A02326 #A09D23

Triadic

#23A05F #5F23A0

Tetradic

#26A023 #2364A0 #9C23A0

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#A05F24

#AA703C

#B58254

#BF946D

#CAA685

#D4B79D

#DFC9B6

#E9DBCE

#F4EDE6

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#A05F24

#8E5420

#7C491C

#6A3F18

#583414

#472A10

#351F0C

#231508

#110A04

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

5.05:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA

4.16:1

Text on #000000

AA Large

4.83:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA

3.53:1

Text on #0F172A

AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #A05F24; }

.text-color { color: #A05F24; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #A05F24; }

Similar Colors

Saddlebrown

#8B4513