Orangey Brown #B16002

About this color

#B16002 is a medium-dark, moderately saturated brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 57%, its chroma 0.136 and its hue 59°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Orangey Brown. White text reads best on it, at 4.62:1.

Colors that go with Orangey Brown

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

Color palettes with Orangey Brown

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

• Mint Roadmap
• Cider Embers
• Saffron and Harissa
• Flow Pipeline
• Wine and Burgundy
• Chilli Pantry
• Lemonade Heatwave
• Pumpkin and Harvest

Similar named colors

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

• Umber #B26400 ΔE 0.010
• Copper #B66325 ΔE 0.020
• Raw Umber #A75E09 ΔE 0.020
• Orange Brown #BE6400 ΔE 0.027
• Brown Orange #B96902 ΔE 0.028
• Burnt Siena #B75203 ΔE 0.032
• Caramel #AF6F09 ΔE 0.036
• Tiger's Eye #BC6C25 ΔE 0.038

More about Orangey Brown

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Orangey Brown

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.

• 1 part orange
• 1 part brown

Recipe result: #A76427, a difference of ΔE 0.023 from Orangey Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Orangey Brown 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 Orangey Brown

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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FAF4F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.008 56.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F3E7DF

   oklch(93.5% 0.017 56.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #EBD4C4

   oklch(88.5% 0.034 57.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DFB89A

   oklch(80.9% 0.061 59.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #CE9161

   oklch(70.6% 0.098 58.5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #C07432

   oklch(63% 0.124 58.2)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #B16002

   oklch(57.2% 0.136 58.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #904D00

   oklch(49.1% 0.117 58.7)

9. Step 800

   800

   #773E00

   oklch(42.7% 0.102 58.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #61350C

    oklch(37.7% 0.082 58.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #391F0A

    oklch(26.9% 0.052 56.9)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Orangey Brown 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.