Exploring the Color #4A3B16

#4A3B16 sits at 43° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 54% saturation and 19% lightness, it reads as a moderately saturated, deep tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 74, 59, 22 produces a 10.89:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #4A3B16 is a distant relative of CSS maroon — about 83 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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