Saddle brown

#923210

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 vivid. 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 #923210, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#923210

RGB146, 50, 16

HSL16, 80%, 32%

HSV16, 89%, 57%

CMYK0%, 66%, 89%, 43%

Lab34.86, 38.96, 40.53

XYZ13.09, 8.43, 1.43

Decimal9581072

Web safe#993300

Pantone174 C

Shades of saddle brown

#862e0f #7a2a0d #6e260c #63220b #571e0a #4b1a08 #3f1607 #331206 #270d04 #1c0903

Tints of saddle brown

#b03c13 #ce4617 #e6531f #ea6a3c #ed815a #f09778 #f3ae96 #f7c5b3 #fadcd1 #fdf3ef

Colors that go with saddle brown

Complementary#107092 Analogous#92102f Analogous#927310 Triadic#109232 Triadic#321092 Split complementary#109273 Split complementary#102f92

Saddle brown in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 0, 66, 89, 43.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #923210 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 66 89 43

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 65 86 49

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #923210 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #923210; }
.text { color: #923210; }
.border { border: 2px solid #923210; }

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 #923210 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #923210 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 #923210 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 #923210 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 #923210 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.