Photo in the color Camel
Pictured: Camel, the closest color we have a photo of (#C19A6B)
rgb(204, 153, 102)
#CC9966

Brown Yellow #CC9966 RGB Color Code

Web-safe color.

Brown Yellow (#CC9966) is a moderately saturated, light orange. In RGB it is made of 80% red, 60% green and 40% blue (R 204, G 153, B 102). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 30°, 50% saturation and 60% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.366, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 25% magenta, 50% yellow and 20% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Brown Yellow color codes

#CC9966 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #CC9966 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(204, 153, 102) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(30, 50%, 60%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(30, 50%, 80%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(30 40% 20%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 25%, 50%, 20%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(72% 0.0909 65.53) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(72% 0.0376 0.0827) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(67.33% 15.25 34.5) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(67.33% 37.72 66.16) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.7694 0.608 0.4293) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3869 0.3658 0.1759) Valid CSS
Decimal 13408614 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.3658. Nearest web-safe color: #CC9966.

Mix Brown Yellow with other colors

See what #CC9966 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintBrown Yellow and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightBrown Yellow and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintBrown Yellow and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalBrown Yellow blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Brown Yellow in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--brown-yellow: #CC9966;
Sass variable$brown-yellow: #CC9966;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-brown-yellow: #CC9966; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'brown-yellow': '#CC9966' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.8, green: 0.6, blue: 0.4)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.8, green: 0.6, blue: 0.4, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="brown_yellow">#FFCC9966</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFCC9966)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #CC9966 (8.32:1, AAA). Here is how #CC9966 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.53:1 on white
APCA Lc 49
Fails AATry #9D6D3A
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
8.32:1 on black
APCA Lc -53
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Brown Yellow

#CC9966 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

With deuteranopia, #CC9966 and #66CC99 look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Brown Yellow

A plain descriptive name

Brown Yellow simply describes what you see: a yellow pulled toward brown. We found no color book, paint maker or official list that ties this name to #CC9966. Online name lists use it for a few nearby codes, such as #DD9966.

The code itself has a small claim to fame. Each of its three pairs, CC, 99 and 66, is one of the six steps of the old web-safe palette. Early screens could only show 256 colors, so designers in the 1990s often picked codes like this one. Read more about how the pairs work in the HEX guide.

Close neighbors on this site are camel and fawn.

Brown Yellow in a user interface

A sample app screen with #CC9966 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #CC9966 as it is. On the light theme, #CC9966 is too hard to read as text (2.53:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9D6D3A there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Brown Yellow

These schemes turn the hue of #CC9966 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#CC9966#6699CC

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#CC6666this#CC9966#CCCC66

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#CC9966#66CC99#9966CC

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#CC9966#66CCCC#6666CC

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#CC9966#99CC66#6699CC#9966CC

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#CC9966#66CC66#6699CC#CC66CC

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#4D331A#8B5C2E#C28649#D7AF87#ECD9C6

Gradients with Brown Yellow

Four CSS gradients made from #CC9966. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F5EAE0, #CC9966);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #CC9966, #372717);

Edit in the gradient generator

Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CC6666, #CC9966, #CCCC66);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CC9966, #A5B480, #66CC99);

Edit in the gradient generator

Shades, tints and tones of Brown Yellow

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Brown Yellow sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5EB
  2. 100
    FFE8D3
  3. 200
    F6D4B4
  4. 300
    E3B88E
  5. 400
    CC9966
  6. 500
    AC7B48
  7. 600
    8F602E
  8. 700
    744B1C
  9. 800
    5C3912
  10. 900
    442A0C
  11. 950
    281A0B

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #CC9966 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3012 Beige red#CB8D73, very close (ΔE 4.0)Tailwind CSSyellow-600 #CA8A04, close (ΔE 6.8)CSS color namesperu #CD853F, close (ΔE 5.3)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of orange or search the color library.