Saddle brown

#8e3a1e

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 strong. 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 #8e3a1e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8e3a1e
RGB142, 58, 30
HSL15, 65%, 34%
HSV15, 79%, 56%
CMYK0%, 59%, 79%, 44%
Lab35.73, 33.98, 34.23
XYZ12.9, 8.87, 2.26
Decimal9320990
Web safe#993333
Pantone174 C
Pantone174 CHex#8e3a1eRgb142 58 30Cmyk0 59 79 44Lab36 34 34Darker#33150bDeep#542212Lighter#c15632

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, 59, 79, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8e3a1e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C
0 59 79 44
Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.
Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U
4 58 77 50
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 #8e3a1e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8e3a1e; }
.text { color: #8e3a1e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8e3a1e; }

How saddle brown looks on light and dark

Saddle brown and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #8e3a1e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Textwhite text on this color
7.57:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Textblack text on this color
2.77:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8e3a1e 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 #8e3a1e 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 #8e3a1e 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 #8e3a1e 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. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.