Exploring the Color #7B5939

#7B5939 sits at 29° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 37% saturation and 35% 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 123, 89, 57 produces a 6.31:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #7B5939 is a clear variant of CSS sienna — about 40 units away from #A0522D. 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 a present, comfortable mid-canvas voice. On screen the warm cast tends to pair best with cool neutrals around 210°-230° to balance temperature.

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