Saddle brown

#5a3613

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for saddle brown, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

This is Saddle brown, a strong orange at 30 degrees. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Saddle brown color values

Every conversion for #5a3613, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5a3613

RGB90, 54, 19

HSL30, 65%, 21%

HSV30, 79%, 35%

CMYK0%, 40%, 79%, 65%

Lab26.33, 12.72, 27.79

XYZ5.65, 4.86, 1.26

Decimal5912083

Web safe#663300

Pantone161 C

Shades of saddle brown

#543212 #4d2e10 #472a0f #40260e #3a230c #331f0b #2d1b09 #261708 #201307 #190f05

Tints of saddle brown

#7a491a #995c20 #b96f27 #d48232 #da9552 #e1a972 #e8bc91 #efcfb1 #f5e3d1 #fcf6f0

Colors that go with saddle brown

Complementary#13375a Analogous#5a1313 Analogous#5a5a13 Triadic#135a36 Triadic#36135a Split complementary#135a5a Split complementary#13135a

Saddle brown in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 40, 79, 65.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5a3613 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 40 79 65

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 41 77 71

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Saddle brown in css

Copy #5a3613 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5a3613; }
.text { color: #5a3613; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5a3613; }

How saddle brown looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Saddle brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #5a3613 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5a3613 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Saddle brown on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #5a3613 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around saddle brown? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn saddle brown into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #5a3613 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from saddle brown, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #5a3613 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.