Exploring the Color #595613

#595613 sits at 57° on the color wheel, placing it in the yellow family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 65% saturation and 21% lightness, it reads as a richly saturated, deep tone — a weighted, dramatic presence with deep undertones. Its RGB mix of 89, 86, 19 produces a 7.59:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #595613 is a distant relative of CSS olive — about 60 units away from #808000. Designers reach for yellow 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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