HEX Color #B6491D (Chocolate)

About #B6491D

Visually, #B6491D is defined as a vivid orange. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Chocolate. In the RGB color space, it consists of 182 red, 73 green, and 29 blue.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 60% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 17.3 degrees, it sits comfortably in the orange spectrum.

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#B6491D

RGB182, 73, 29

HSL17.3°, 72.5%, 41.4%

CMYK0%, 60%, 84%, 29%

HSV17.3°, 84.1%, 71.4%

LAB45.4, 42.0, 46.3

XYZ21.9, 14.8, 2.9

Decimal11946269

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#B6491D #1D8AB6

Analogous

#B61D3D #B6951D

Triadic

#1DB649 #491DB6

Tetradic

#3DB61D #1D8AB6 #951DB6

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#B6491D

#BE5D36

#C6714F

#CE8568

#D69981

#DEAE9A

#E6C2B3

#EED6CC

#F6EAE5

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#B6491D

#A14019

#8D3816

#793013

#652810

#50200C

#3C1809

#281006

#140803

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

5.30:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA

3.96:1

Text on #000000

AA Large

5.07:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA

3.37:1

Text on #0F172A

AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #B6491D; }

.text-color { color: #B6491D; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #B6491D; }

Similar Colors

Chocolate

#D2691E