Warm Brown #964E02

About this color

#964E02 is a medium-dark, moderately saturated brown. In OKLCH its lightness is 50%, its chroma 0.121 and its hue 57°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Warm Brown. White text reads best on it, at 6.19:1.

Colors that go with Warm Brown

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

Color palettes with Warm Brown

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

• Terracotta Rooftop
• Pie and Formica
• Pretzel and Rye
• Maple Harvest
• Roast Table
• Caramel Grind
• Cinnamon and Molasses
• Almanac Wallpaper

Similar named colors

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

• Burnt Umber #A0450E ΔE 0.028
• Saddle Brown #8B4513 ΔE 0.035
• Sienna #A0522D ΔE 0.035
• Sepia #985E2B ΔE 0.041
• Medium Brown #7F5112 ΔE 0.043
• Cinnamon #AC4F06 ΔE 0.043
• Milk Chocolate #7F4E1E ΔE 0.045
• Russet #A13905 ΔE 0.048

More about Warm Brown

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Warm 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.

• 2 parts brown
• 1 part orange

Recipe result: #8C5427, a difference of ΔE 0.026 from Warm Brown. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Warm 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 Warm 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

   #FAF4F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.008 56.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F3E7DF

   oklch(93.5% 0.017 56.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #EBD4C5

   oklch(88.5% 0.033 55.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DFB89C

   oklch(81% 0.059 57.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #CE9166

   oklch(70.7% 0.094 55.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #BF7539

   oklch(63.1% 0.119 57.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #AB5C0E

   oklch(55.7% 0.13 56.8)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #964E02

   oklch(50.2% 0.121 56.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #773E06

   oklch(42.7% 0.1 56.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #603511

    oklch(37.6% 0.078 56.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #38200C

    oklch(27% 0.049 58.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Warm 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.