Exploring the Color #5D2B31

#5D2B31 sits at 353° on the color wheel, placing it in the red family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 37% saturation and 27% lightness, it reads as a softly muted, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 93, 43, 49 produces a 11.32:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #5D2B31 is a distant relative of CSS brown — about 72 units away from #A52A2A. Designers reach for red 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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