Exploring the Color #56574F

#56574F sits at 67° on the color wheel, placing it in the yellow family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 5% saturation and 33% lightness, it reads as a heavily muted, shadowed tone — a quiet, restrained presence that recedes rather than competes. Its RGB mix of 86, 87, 79 produces a 7.31:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #56574F is a clear variant of CSS dim gray — about 37 units away from #696969. Designers reach for yellow hues at this saturation when the brief calls for restraint and atmosphere, and at this lightness when they want a present, comfortable mid-canvas voice. On screen the warm cast tends to pair best with cool neutrals around 210°-230° to balance temperature.

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