Saddle brown

#6a2d08

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 serious 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 #6a2d08, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6a2d08

RGB106, 45, 8

HSL23, 86%, 22%

HSV23, 92%, 42%

CMYK0%, 58%, 92%, 58%

Lab26.62, 25.15, 34.14

XYZ6.93, 4.96, 0.82

Decimal6958344

Web safe#663300

Pantone168 C

Shades of saddle brown

#622a07 #5a2607 #532306 #4b2006 #431d05 #3b1904 #341604 #2c1303 #240f03 #1c0c02

Tints of saddle brown

#8d3c0b #b04b0d #d35a10 #ee6b1b #f0823f #f39962 #f6b085 #f8c6a8 #fbddcb #fef4ee

Colors that go with saddle brown

Complementary#08456a Analogous#6a0814 Analogous#6a5e08 Triadic#086a2d Triadic#2d086a Split complementary#086a5e Split complementary#08146a

Saddle brown in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 0, 58, 92, 58.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6a2d08 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 58 92 58

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 57 89 64

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 #6a2d08 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6a2d08; }
.text { color: #6a2d08; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6a2d08; }

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 #6a2d08 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6a2d08 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 #6a2d08 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 #6a2d08 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 #6a2d08 are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.