Saddle Brown

Hex #8B4513, rgb(139 69 19). A brown CSS named color.

Saddle Brown#8B4513

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About Saddle Brown

Saddle Brown is a dark moderately saturated brown with the hex code #8B4513. In RGB it is made of 139 red, 69 green and 19 blue; in HSL its hue is 25°, with 76% saturation and 31% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 47.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "saddlebrown" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 7.10:1 and against black 2.96:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Saddle Brown 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 Saddle Brown

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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Contrast and readability

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

Saddle Brown textSmall text on white

On white7.10:1

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

APCA Lc 84

Saddle Brown textSmall text on black

On black2.96:1

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

APCA Lc -18

White text on Saddle Brown (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#594E0A
Deuteranopia#6A5E11
Tritanopia#99353B
Protanomaly#6A4E0B
Deuteranomaly#725810
Tritanomaly#913F2B
Achromatopsia#585858

Colors similar to Saddle Brown

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Saddle Brown in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.saddle-brown {
  color: saddlebrown; /* #8B4513 */
  background-color: rgb(139 69 19);
  border-color: oklch(47.1% 0.112 50.8);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-saddle-brown-500, text-saddle-brown-700... */
@theme {
  --color-saddle-brown-50: #FFF9F5;
  --color-saddle-brown-100: #FEEAE0;
  --color-saddle-brown-200: #FAD6C2;
  --color-saddle-brown-300: #F5B692;
  --color-saddle-brown-400: #E98B51;
  --color-saddle-brown-500: #DC6F1F;
  --color-saddle-brown-600: #C65F05;
  --color-saddle-brown-700: #A74F06;
  --color-saddle-brown-800: #8B4513;
  --color-saddle-brown-900: #6E3710;
  --color-saddle-brown-950: #280D00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#8B4513] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>