Sand Brown #CBA560

About this color

#CBA560 is a medium-light, moderately saturated orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 74%, its chroma 0.098 and its hue 81°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Sand Brown. Black text reads best on it, at 9.09:1.

Colors that go with Sand Brown

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

Color palettes with Sand Brown

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

• Acorn and Bark
• Sourdough Display
• Pretzel and Rye
• Sagebrush Heat
• Almanac Wallpaper
• Sagebrush and Cactus
• Dune and Kiln
• Lemon Peel

Similar named colors

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

• Camel #C69F59 ΔE 0.018
• Desert #CCAD60 ΔE 0.021
• Sandstone #C9AE74 ΔE 0.026
• Earth Yellow #DDA15E ΔE 0.029
• Toupe #C7AC7D ΔE 0.032
• Fawn #CFAF7B ΔE 0.035
• Dark Khaki #BDB76B ΔE 0.047
• Putty #BEAE8A ΔE 0.048

More about Sand Brown

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Sand 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 white
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #C8A85E, a difference of ΔE 0.011 from Sand Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Sand 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 Sand 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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F8F5EF

   oklch(97.1% 0.009 84.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F0E9DD

   oklch(93.6% 0.018 81.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E5D7C0

   oklch(88.4% 0.034 80.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D5BD94

   oklch(80.9% 0.061 80.9)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #CBA560

   oklch(74.2% 0.098 81.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B08013

   oklch(63.1% 0.126 80.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #956B00

   oklch(55.6% 0.115 81.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #7E5900

   oklch(49% 0.101 80.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #674900

   oklch(42.7% 0.088 81.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #563C00

    oklch(37.6% 0.078 81.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #332303

    oklch(26.9% 0.052 80.9)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Sand 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.