Mud #735C12

About this color

#735C12 is a medium-dark, moderately saturated brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 48%, its chroma 0.092 and its hue 90°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Mud. White text reads best on it, at 6.42:1.

Colors that go with Mud

Matches found by rotating Mud around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Mud

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Mud, closest first.

• Lemon Rind
• Pool Road Trip
• Mango Descent
• Pumpkin and Harvest
• Bonfire Orchard
• Umber Table
• Mandarin Crate
• Raw Kiln

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Mud, with their ΔE distance.

• Greeny Brown #696006 ΔE 0.023
• Medium Brown #7F5112 ΔE 0.036
• Olive Brown #645403 ΔE 0.037
• Mud Green #606602 ΔE 0.044
• Brown Green #706C11 ΔE 0.046
• Milk Chocolate #7F4E1E ΔE 0.047
• Browny Green #6F6C0A ΔE 0.047
• Dirt Brown #836539 ΔE 0.051

More about Mud

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Mud

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts orange
• 1 part black

Recipe result: #77602C, a difference of ΔE 0.023 from Mud. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Mud in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Mud

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 700.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F7F5F1

   oklch(97.1% 0.006 84.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDEAE0

   oklch(93.7% 0.014 93)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DFD9C7

   oklch(88.5% 0.025 91.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CCC0A1

   oklch(81% 0.044 89.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B29F6D

   oklch(70.7% 0.071 89.6)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9F8744

   oklch(63.1% 0.091 89.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #8A7023

   oklch(55.6% 0.099 89.6)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #735C12

   oklch(48.5% 0.092 90.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5F4D15

   oklch(42.8% 0.076 90.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4E4019

    oklch(37.7% 0.059 89.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2D2610

    oklch(27.1% 0.037 92.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Mud with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.