Exploring the Color #946F12

#946F12 sits at 43° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 78% saturation and 33% lightness, it reads as a richly saturated, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 148, 111, 18 produces a 4.62:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #946F12 is a clear variant of CSS olive — about 32 units away from #808000. Designers reach for orange hues at this saturation when the brief calls for bold, immediate signal, 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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