Information about #A96A1E color
Basic facts about this digital color
#A96A1E is a strongly colored amber-leaning orange that occupies the middle of the lightness scale. In practice it works well for logos, highlights and anything that needs to be noticed first. In The Official Register of Color Names it is very close to Dirty Brown (#B5651E). Slightly further away sit Light Brown (#B5651D) and Omega (#B56519).
In RGB terms — rgb(169, 106, 30) — the red channel does the heavy lifting here. On this background, black text reaches a 4.8:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); white stays at 4.4:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #A96A1E is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#A96A1E color variations
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#A96A1E color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#A96A1E color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#A96A1E color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
#A96A1E color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#A96A1E color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Split complementary
Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.
Tetradic
Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Square
Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.
Alternatives to #A96A1E color
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Nearest named colors to #A96A1E
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#B5651E
#B5651D
#B56519
#B26F2C
#A7752C
#A17917
#996515
#A6602F
#A56531
#AC7911
#9D702E
#BB6528
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#A96A1E
- RGB169, 106, 30
- CMYK0, 25, 55, 34
- CSSrgb(169, 106, 30)
- HSL33°, 70%, 39%
- HSL Precise32.806°, 69.849%, 39.02%
- HSV33°, 82%, 66%
- HSB33°, 82%, 66%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.663
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.416
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.118
- GLSLvec3(0.663, 0.416, 0.118)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.663, 0.416, 0.118, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.663, 0.416, 0.118)
- Percentage of Red in RGB66.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB41.6%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB11.8%
- Color FamilyOrange
- Saturation FamilyHigh Saturation
- Lightness FamilyNeutral
- HEX IDA96A1E
- DECIMAL ID11102750
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers20 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
