Exploring the Color #7B3617

#7B3617 sits at 19° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 68% saturation and 29% lightness, it reads as a richly saturated, shadowed tone — a weighted, dramatic presence with deep undertones. Its RGB mix of 123, 54, 23 produces a 8.82:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #7B3617 is a clear variant of CSS brown — about 48 units away from #A52A2A. 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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