Exploring the Color #4B3931

#4B3931 sits at 18° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 21% saturation and 24% 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 75, 57, 49 produces a 10.89:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #4B3931 is a distant relative of CSS dim gray — about 80 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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