Exploring the Color #57423B

#57423B sits at 15° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 19% saturation and 29% lightness, it reads as a heavily muted, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 87, 66, 59 produces a 9.34:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #57423B is a distant relative of CSS dim gray — about 63 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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