Saddle Brown color (#8B4513)
Saddle Brown is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword saddlebrown
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #8B4513, which is rgb(139, 69, 19) in RGB.
It is a dark, moderately saturated warm color with a hue angle of 25° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 47% in OKLCH. On a saddle brown background, white text gives the higher contrast at 7.09:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Saddle Brown color codes
| CSS name | saddlebrown |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #8B4513 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #8B4513FF |
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| RGB | rgb(139, 69, 19) |
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| HSL | hsl(25, 76%, 31%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(25, 86%, 55%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(47.1% 0.1121 50.8) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 50.4%, 86.3%, 45.5%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for saddle brown used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of saddle brown
Tints mix saddle brown with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
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Colors that go with saddle brown
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
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Split-Complementary
Saddle Brown with color blindness
Approximately how saddle brown appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using saddle brown in CSS
.element {
color: saddlebrown;
background-color: #8b4513;
border-color: rgb(139 69 19 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(47.1% 0.1121 50.8);
}Similar named colors
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