Exploring the Color #493221

#493221 sits at 26° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 38% saturation and 21% lightness, it reads as a softly muted, deep tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 73, 50, 33 produces a 11.92:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #493221 is a distant relative of CSS maroon — about 81 units away from #800000. Designers reach for orange hues at this saturation when the brief calls for a conversational, mid-energy register, and at this lightness when they want weight, depth, and grounded contrast. On screen the warm cast tends to pair best with cool neutrals around 210°-230° to balance temperature.

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