Saddle brown

#935a21

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 30 degrees. 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 #935a21, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#935a21

RGB147, 90, 33

HSL30, 63%, 35%

HSV30, 78%, 58%

CMYK0%, 39%, 78%, 42%

Lab43.69, 18.58, 41.02

XYZ15.96, 13.63, 3.23

Decimal9656865

Web safe#996633

Pantone154 C

Shades of saddle brown

#87531e #7b4b1c #6e4419 #623c16 #563513 #4a2d11 #3e260e #311e0b #251708 #190f06

Tints of saddle brown

#ac6a27 #c6792c #d4893e #d99857 #dfa871 #e5b88a #ebc7a4 #f0d7bd #f6e6d7 #fcf6f0

Colors that go with saddle brown

Complementary#215a93 Analogous#932121 Analogous#939321 Triadic#21935a Triadic#5a2193 Split complementary#219393 Split complementary#212193

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, 39, 78, 42.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #935a21 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 39 78 42

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 40 76 48

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 #935a21 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #935a21; }
.text { color: #935a21; }
.border { border: 2px solid #935a21; }

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 #935a21 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #935a21 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 #935a21 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 #935a21 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 #935a21 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.