Exploring the Color #62522F

#62522F sits at 41° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 35% saturation and 28% 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 98, 82, 47 produces a 7.59:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #62522F is a distant relative of CSS olive drab — about 62 units away from #6B8E23. Designers reach for orange 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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