Exploring the Color #4A3929

#4A3929 sits at 29° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 29% saturation and 23% 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 74, 57, 41 produces a 11.00:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #4A3929 is a distant relative of CSS dim gray — about 86 units away from #696969. Designers reach for orange hues at this saturation when the brief calls for restraint and atmosphere, 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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