Exploring the Color #70631C

#70631C sits at 51° on the color wheel, placing it in the yellow family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 60% saturation and 27% lightness, it reads as a moderately saturated, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 112, 99, 28 produces a 6.02:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #70631C is a clear variant of CSS olive — about 43 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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