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Burlywood

Hex #DEB887, rgb(222 184 135). A brown CSS named color.

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About Burlywood

Burlywood is a light moderately saturated brown with the hex code #DEB887. In RGB it is made of 222 red, 184 green and 135 blue; in HSL its hue is 34°, with 57% saturation and 70% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 80.5%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "burlywood" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.86:1 and against black 11.31:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Burlywood mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

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Tones (with gray)

Burlywood 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Burlywood

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Burlywood with white and black. The readable text color on Burlywood is black.

Burlywood textSmall text on white

On white1.86:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 35

Burlywood textSmall text on black

On black11.31:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -68

Black text on Burlywood (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Burlywood appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#C6B984
  • Deuteranopia#CFC288
  • Tritanopia#ECAEAB
  • Protanomaly#CDB985
  • Deuteranomaly#D2BF87
  • Tritanomaly#E3B499
  • Achromatopsia#BEBEBE

Colors similar to Burlywood

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Burlywood in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.burlywood {
  color: burlywood; /* #DEB887 */
  background-color: rgb(222 184 135);
  border-color: oklch(80.5% 0.078 73.4);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-burlywood-500, text-burlywood-700... */
@theme {
  --color-burlywood-50: #FEF9F3;
  --color-burlywood-100: #F7EBDD;
  --color-burlywood-200: #ECD7BD;
  --color-burlywood-300: #DEB887;
  --color-burlywood-400: #C88F3B;
  --color-burlywood-500: #B47700;
  --color-burlywood-600: #9A6500;
  --color-burlywood-700: #7C5100;
  --color-burlywood-800: #644000;
  --color-burlywood-900: #523400;
  --color-burlywood-950: #221200;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#DEB887] text-[#000000]">…</div>