Saddle Brown #8B4513

About this color

#8B4513 is a medium-dark, moderately saturated brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 47%, its chroma 0.112 and its hue 51°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Saddle Brown. White text reads best on it, at 7.09:1.

Colors that go with Saddle Brown

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

Color palettes with Saddle Brown

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

• Dune Heat
• Whiteboard Deck
• Terracotta Garden
• Terracotta Rooftop
• Mahogany Evening
• Sourdough Box
• Dune and Kiln
• Kiln Bloom

Similar named colors

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

• Milk Chocolate #7F4E1E ΔE 0.029
• Warm Brown #964E02 ΔE 0.035
• Medium Brown #7F5112 ΔE 0.037
• Burnt Umber #A0450E ΔE 0.041
• Rust Brown #8B3103 ΔE 0.043
• Russet #A13905 ΔE 0.046
• Red Brown #8B2E16 ΔE 0.052
• Brown Red #922B05 ΔE 0.052

More about Saddle Brown

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Saddle 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.

• 3 parts brown
• 1 part red
• 1 part orange

Recipe result: #884928, a difference of ΔE 0.017 from Saddle Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Saddle 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 Saddle 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 700.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FAF4F1

   oklch(97.1% 0.008 48.7)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F3E7E1

   oklch(93.6% 0.015 48.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #EAD4C8

   oklch(88.5% 0.03 50.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DEB7A1

   oklch(80.8% 0.054 51.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #CD916F

   oklch(70.8% 0.087 50.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #BE7448

   oklch(63% 0.111 50.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #AA5C28

   oklch(55.7% 0.121 51.1)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #8B4513

   oklch(47.1% 0.112 50.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #763E19

   oklch(42.7% 0.092 51)

10. Step 900

    900

    #60351B

    oklch(37.7% 0.073 50.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #381F11

    oklch(26.9% 0.046 49.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Saddle 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.