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#8d4e38 color: Burled Redwood

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16°
100%

OKLCH

49.4%
0.092
40°
  • ≈ Marsala
  • Brown
  • Dark
  • Soft
  • Warm
  • yellow-800
  • Black 45%

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White text6.40:1 · AALc -87
Black text3.28:1 · Below AALc 23

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About #8d4e38

#8d4e38 is a soft dark brown color. In OKLCH it has 49.4% lightness, 0.092 chroma and a hue of 40°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 6.4:1 contrast and black text 3.28:1, so white text reads better.

The closest named color is Burled Redwood (#8f4c3a). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is yellow-800.

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Lighter: #8d4e38 mixed with white

  1. 8d4e38
  2. 995f4b
  3. a5705e
  4. b18171
  5. bc9284
  6. c8a498
  7. d3b6ac
  8. dec8c0
  9. e9dad5
  10. f4ecea

Darker: #8d4e38 mixed with black

  1. 8d4e38
  2. 7a432f
  3. 673827
  4. 552d1f
  5. 442317
  6. 33190f
  7. 230f08
  8. 140704
  9. 070201
  10. 010000

Calmer: #8d4e38 with less saturation

  1. 8d4e38
  2. 89503d
  3. 855341
  4. 815546
  5. 7d574a
  6. 79594e
  7. 745b52
  8. 705d56
  9. 6b5e5a
  10. 66605e