Saddle brown

#80422d

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

Saddle brown sits in the orange range, deep and soft. 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 #80422d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#80422d

RGB128, 66, 45

HSL15, 48%, 34%

HSV15, 65%, 50%

CMYK0%, 48%, 65%, 50%

Lab35.35, 24.69, 24.58

XYZ11.32, 8.68, 3.56

Decimal8405549

Web safe#993333

Pantone478 C

Shades of saddle brown

#753d29 #6b3726 #603222 #562c1e #4b271a #412117 #361c13 #2c170f #21110c #170c08

Tints of saddle brown

#984e35 #af5a3e #c06a4c #c97e64 #d1917c #d9a593 #e1b9ab #eaccc3 #f2e0da #faf4f2

Colors that go with saddle brown

Complementary#2d6b80 Analogous#802d42 Analogous#806c2d Triadic#2d8042 Triadic#422d80 Split complementary#2d806b Split complementary#2d4280

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, 65, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #80422d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 48 65 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 48 64 56

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 #80422d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #80422d; }
.text { color: #80422d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #80422d; }

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 #80422d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #80422d 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 #80422d 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 #80422d 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 #80422d are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.