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Pictured: Rose gold, the closest color we have a photo of (#B76E79)
rgb(173, 111, 105)
#AD6F69

Copper Penny #AD6F69 RGB Color Code

Copper Penny (#AD6F69) is a moderately saturated, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 68% red, 44% green and 41% blue (R 173, G 111, B 105). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 5°, 29% saturation and 55% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.213, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 36% magenta, 39% yellow and 32% 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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Copper Penny color codes

#AD6F69 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #AD6F69 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(173, 111, 105) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(5, 29%, 55%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(5, 39%, 68%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(5 41% 32%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 36%, 39%, 32%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(60.6% 0.0801 25.72) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(60.6% 0.0722 0.0348) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(53.55% 24.76 14.11) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(53.55% 28.5 29.68) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6437 0.4462 0.4199) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2547 0.2127 0.1613) Valid CSS
Decimal 11366249 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2127. Nearest web-safe color: #996666.

Mix Copper Penny with other colors

See what #AD6F69 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.

PaintCopper Penny and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightCopper Penny and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintCopper Penny and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalCopper Penny blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Copper Penny 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--copper-penny: #AD6F69;
Sass variable$copper-penny: #AD6F69;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-copper-penny: #AD6F69; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'copper-penny': '#AD6F69' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.435, blue: 0.412)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.435, blue: 0.412, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="copper_penny">#FFAD6F69</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFAD6F69)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #AD6F69 (5.25:1, AA). Here is how #AD6F69 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.00:1 on white
APCA Lc 67
AA LargeTry #A46761
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.25:1 on black
APCA Lc -35
AA

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 Copper Penny

#AD6F69 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, #AD6F69 and #69AD6F 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 Copper Penny

From the Silver Swirls box

Copper penny is a Crayola crayon from Silver Swirls, a pack of 24 shiny colors that came out in 1990. The list of Crayola crayon colors says the codes for that pack are only estimates. A flat screen color can't show the metal shine, so #AD6F69 looks like a dusty brownish red. The ISCC-NBS system names it a grayish red.

Other metal crayons

Crayola's older copper crayon is lighter and more orange. A later metallic crayon, blast-off bronze, #A57164, comes very close to copper penny. Rose gold is a pinker cousin.

Copper Penny in a user interface

A sample app screen with #AD6F69 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #AD6F69 as it is. On the light theme, #AD6F69 is too hard to read as text (4.00:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A46761 there (4.48:1). On the dark theme, #AD6F69 is too hard to read as text (4.44:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #AE706A there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Copper Penny

These schemes turn the hue of #AD6F69 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#AD6F69#69A7AD

Analogous

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

Open palette
#AD6985this#AD6F69#AD9169

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#AD6F69#69AD6F#6F69AD

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#AD6F69#69AD91#6985AD

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#AD6F69#A7AD69#69A7AD#6F69AD

Square

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

Open palette
this#AD6F69#85AD69#69A7AD#9169AD

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#422724#784641#A96962#C79C98#E4D0CE

Gradients with Copper Penny

Four CSS gradients made from #AD6F69. 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, #F0E1DF, #AD6F69);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #AD6F69, #2D1A18);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AD6985, #AD6F69, #AD9169);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AD6F69, #93906C, #69AD6F);

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Shades, tints and tones of Copper Penny

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)

Copper Penny sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4F2
  2. 100
    FFE6E3
  3. 200
    FBCFCA
  4. 300
    E9B1AB
  5. 400
    CF918A
  6. 500
    AD6F69
  7. 600
    945954
  8. 700
    794440
  9. 800
    603430
  10. 900
    472623
  11. 950
    291716

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #AD6F69 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1011 Brown beige#AF804F, close (ΔE 6.6)Tailwind CSSstone-500 #78716C, close (ΔE 8.8)CSS color namesindianred #CD5C5C, close (ΔE 6.5)

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 brown or search the color library.