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Sandy Brown

Hex #F4A460, rgb(244 164 96). A brown CSS named color.

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About Sandy Brown

Sandy Brown is a light saturated brown with the hex code #F4A460. In RGB it is made of 244 red, 164 green and 96 blue; in HSL its hue is 28°, with 87% saturation and 67% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 78.4%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "sandybrown" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.03:1 and against black 10.33:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Sandy 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 Sandy 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 Sandy Brown with white and black. The readable text color on Sandy Brown is black.

Sandy Brown textSmall text on white

On white2.03:1

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

APCA Lc 39

Sandy Brown textSmall text on black

On black10.33:1

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

APCA Lc -63

Black text on Sandy Brown (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#BCAB5A
  • Deuteranopia#CFBD61
  • Tritanopia#FF9394
  • Protanomaly#CEAB5B
  • Deuteranomaly#D7B660
  • Tritanomaly#FC9D7B
  • Achromatopsia#B6B6B6

Colors similar to Sandy Brown

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Sandy Brown in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.sandy-brown {
  color: sandybrown; /* #F4A460 */
  background-color: rgb(244 164 96);
  border-color: oklch(78.4% 0.127 59.7);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-sandy-brown-500, text-sandy-brown-700... */
@theme {
  --color-sandy-brown-50: #FFF9F4;
  --color-sandy-brown-100: #FFE7D4;
  --color-sandy-brown-200: #FACDAA;
  --color-sandy-brown-300: #F4A460;
  --color-sandy-brown-400: #DB7A00;
  --color-sandy-brown-500: #BD6800;
  --color-sandy-brown-600: #A25900;
  --color-sandy-brown-700: #844700;
  --color-sandy-brown-800: #6B3800;
  --color-sandy-brown-900: #582D00;
  --color-sandy-brown-950: #251000;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#F4A460] text-[#000000]">…</div>