Saddle brown

#5c310c

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 28 degrees. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Saddle brown color values

Every conversion for #5c310c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5c310c

RGB92, 49, 12

HSL28, 77%, 20%

HSV28, 87%, 36%

CMYK0%, 47%, 87%, 64%

Lab25.26, 16.48, 30.35

XYZ5.58, 4.5, 0.92

Decimal6041868

Web safe#663300

Pantone732 C

Shades of saddle brown

#4f2a0a #492709 #422309 #3c2008 #351c07 #2f1906 #281505 #221204 #1b0e04

Tints of saddle brown

#7e4310 #a15615 #c36819 #e27a21 #e78f44 #eba366 #f0b888 #f4cdab #f8e1cd #fdf6ef

Colors that go with saddle brown

Complementary#0c375c Analogous#5c0c0f Analogous#5c590c Triadic#0c5c31 Triadic#310c5c Split complementary#0c5c59 Split complementary#0c0f5c

Saddle brown in print

It sits near the bottom of the tone range, where dark colors gain a touch of weight on press. The cmyk build is 0, 47, 87, 64.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5c310c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 47 87 64

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 47 84 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 #5c310c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5c310c; }
.text { color: #5c310c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5c310c; }

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 #5c310c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5c310c 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 #5c310c 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 #5c310c 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

Here is how the numbers for #5c310c are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.