HEX Color #A85F42 (Sienna)

About #A85F42

The precise color #A85F42 is an excellent choice for modern design projects. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Sienna. In the RGB color space, it consists of 168 red, 95 green, and 66 blue.

Translating this color to physical media requires the CMYK color model. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 43% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 17.1 degrees, it sits comfortably in the orange spectrum.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. The calculated luminance score dictates that #FFFFFF typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#A85F42

RGB168, 95, 66

HSL17.1°, 43.6%, 45.9%

CMYK0%, 43%, 61%, 34%

HSV17.1°, 60.7%, 65.9%

LAB48.1, 26.9, 29.3

XYZ21.2, 16.9, 7.3

Decimal11034434

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#A85F42 #418AA8

Analogous

#A84157 #A89241

Triadic

#41A85F #5F41A8

Tetradic

#57A841 #418AA8 #9241A8

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#A85F42

#B17057

#BB826C

#C59481

#CEA696

#D8B7AB

#E2C9C0

#EBDBD5

#F5EDEA

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#A85F42

#95543A

#824933

#703F2C

#5D3424

#4A2A1D

#381F16

#25150E

#120A07

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

4.79:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA

4.38:1

Text on #000000

AA Large

4.58:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA

3.72:1

Text on #0F172A

AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #A85F42; }

.text-color { color: #A85F42; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #A85F42; }

Similar Colors

Sienna

#A0522D