Exploring the Color #9E3201

#9E3201 sits at 19° on the color wheel, placing it in the orange family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 99% saturation and 31% lightness, it reads as a fully saturated, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 158, 50, 1 produces a 7.22:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #9E3201 is a clear variant of CSS firebrick — about 42 units away from #B22222. 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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