CSS named colour

Saddle Brown

#8b4513

A CSS named colour: saddlebrown is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(139 69 19)
HSL: 25°, 76%, 31%
OKLCh: 47.1% 0.112 50.8

Saddle Brown in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#8b4513`
RGB	`rgb(139 69 19)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(139, 69, 19)`
RGB percent	`rgb(54.51% 27.06% 7.45%)`
HSL	`hsl(25 75.9% 31%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(25, 75.9%, 31%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(25, 86.3%, 54.5%)`
HWB	`hwb(25 7.5% 45.5%)`
Nearest name	`saddlebrown`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 50.4%, 86.3%, 45.5%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(47.078% 0.11214 50.845)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(47.078% 0.07081 0.08696)`
CIE LCh	`lch(37.932% 50.159 55.964)`
CIE Lab	`lab(37.932% 28.075 41.566)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.5095 0.2852 0.1266)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.4112 0.2385 0.0689)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.2582 0.0595 0.0065)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.1289 0.0979 0.0183)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.545, 0.271, 0.075)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.258, 0.06, 0.007)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.545, 0.271, 0.075, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.258, 0.06, 0.007, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(139, 69, 19)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.545, 0.271, 0.075)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.258, 0.06, 0.007)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.545, 0.271, 0.075, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.545, 0.271, 0.075, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.545, 0.271, 0.075)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.545, 0.271, 0.075, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.258, 0.06, 0.007)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(0.545f, 0.271f, 0.075f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(139, 69, 19, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.2582f, 0.0595f, 0.0065f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(139, 69, 19, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.545, 0.271, 0.075, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFF8B4513)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(139, 69, 19)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.545, green: 0.271, blue: 0.075)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.545, green: 0.271, blue: 0.075, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0x8B4513`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFF8B4513`
Array 0–1	`[0.545, 0.271, 0.075]`
Array 0–255	`[139, 69, 19]`
Decimal integer	`9127187`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Saddle Brown on white	7.10:1	AAA	Lc 84	Body text, 18px and up
Saddle Brown on black	2.96:1	Fail	Lc 18	Not usable for text

Saddle Brown text on a white background

Saddle Brown text on a black background

White text on Saddle Brown

Black text on Saddle Brown

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#fff1e1
100#ffe4cd
200#ffcca8
300#fbb389
400#e09569
500#c17648
600#a35d31
700#87471d
800#6f360c
900#5b2700
950#391100

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#a0633f
Tint 2#b48164
Tint 3#c7a08a
Tint 4#dabfb0
Tint 5#eddfd7
Shade 1#6c340c
Shade 2#4e2406
Shade 3#321503
Shade 4#190701
Shade 5#040100

Colours that work with Saddle Brown

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#00658e
#006e52
#5c4e95
#8f3d3f
#7b5200

Closest CSS names

saddlebrownexact match
siennaΔEok 0.057
brownΔEok 0.076
firebrickΔEok 0.093
darkredΔEok 0.102
maroonΔEok 0.114