Saddle brown

#5c3014

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

Saddle brown is a deep orange with weighty warmth. 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 #5c3014, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5c3014
RGB92, 48, 20
HSL23, 64%, 22%
HSV23, 78%, 36%
CMYK0%, 48%, 78%, 64%
Lab25.07, 17.48, 26.02
XYZ5.6, 4.44, 1.22
Decimal6041620
Web safe#663300
Pantone469 C
Pantone469 CHex#5c3014Rgb92 48 20Cmyk0 48 78 64Lab25 17 26Darker#321a0bDeep#542c12Lighter#915027

Shades of saddle brown

Tints of saddle brown

Colors that go with saddle brown

Saddle brown in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 48, 78, 64.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5c3014 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C
0 48 78 64
Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.
Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U
4 48 76 70
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 #5c3014 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5c3014; }
.text { color: #5c3014; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5c3014; }

How saddle brown looks on light and dark

Saddle brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #5c3014 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Textwhite text on this color
11.12:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Textblack text on this color
1.89:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5c3014 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 #5c3014 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Your nameFounderhello@brand.comBusiness 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 #5c3014 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

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 #5c3014 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.