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Pictured: Raw umber, the closest color we have a photo of (#826644)
rgb(129, 97, 62)
#81613E

Coyote Brown #81613E RGB Color Code

Coyote Brown (#81613E) is a muted, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 51% red, 38% green and 24% blue (R 129, G 97, B 62). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 31°, 35% saturation and 37% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.136, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 25% magenta, 52% yellow and 49% 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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Coyote Brown color codes

#81613E in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #81613E Valid CSS
RGB rgb(129, 97, 62) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(31, 35%, 37%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(31, 52%, 51%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(31 24% 49%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 25%, 52%, 49%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(51.69% 0.065 68.06) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(51.69% 0.0243 0.0603) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(43.87% 10.06 25.16) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(43.87% 27.09 68.21) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4865 0.3854 0.2631) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.142 0.1356 0.0643) Valid CSS
Decimal 8479038 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1356. Nearest web-safe color: #996633.

Mix Coyote Brown with other colors

See what #81613E 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.

PaintCoyote Brown and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightCoyote Brown and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintCoyote Brown and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalCoyote Brown blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Coyote Brown 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--coyote-brown: #81613E;
Sass variable$coyote-brown: #81613E;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-coyote-brown: #81613E; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'coyote-brown': '#81613E' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.506, green: 0.38, blue: 0.243)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.506, green: 0.38, blue: 0.243, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="coyote_brown">#FF81613E</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF81613E)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #81613E (5.66:1, AA). Here is how #81613E does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.66:1 on white
APCA Lc 78
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.71:1 on black
APCA Lc -24
AA LargeTry #8F6E4B

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 Coyote Brown

#81613E 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 protanopia and deuteranopia, #81613E and #3E8161 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 Coyote Brown

A military color

Coyote brown is a dull yellowish brown, also called nutria brown. It is often used for military camouflage and gear. In 2014, the U.S. Army said the default desert tan boots would give way to a shade called Coyote Brown 498 with its new camouflage uniform. The Army said the darker color would blend in better in more places.

About the code

The Wikipedia article on coyote brown gives the code as #81613C. This site uses #81613E, the value from the Colour Lovers list. The two differ by only two steps of blue, so they look the same. Military shade numbers like 498 are matched with physical samples, not with screen codes.

Do not mix it up

The color called coyote on this site is a much lighter, orange tan. Raw umber is a closer match to coyote brown. See more in the shades of brown.

Coyote Brown in a user interface

A sample app screen with #81613E as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #81613E as it is. On the dark theme, #81613E is too hard to read as text (3.14:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9B7A56 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Coyote Brown

These schemes turn the hue of #81613E 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#81613E#3E5E81

Analogous

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

Open palette
#81403Ethis#81613E#80813E

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#81613E#3E8161#613E81

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#81613E#3E8081#403E81

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#81613E#5E813E#3E5E81#613E81

Square

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

Open palette
this#81613E#3E8140#3E5E81#813E80

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#453421#7D5E3C#B0885B#CBB193#E6D9CB

Gradients with Coyote Brown

Four CSS gradients made from #81613E. 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, #E5DED6, #81613E);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #81613E, #1F150A);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #81403E, #81613E, #80813E);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #81613E, #677250, #3E8161);

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Shades, tints and tones of Coyote Brown

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)

Coyote Brown sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5EB
  2. 100
    FBEAD8
  3. 200
    EDD6BF
  4. 300
    D8BB9D
  5. 400
    BD9C7A
  6. 500
    A17F5B
  7. 600
    81613E
  8. 700
    6B4F30
  9. 800
    553D23
  10. 900
    3E2C19
  11. 950
    241B11

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #81613E in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1036 Pearl gold#80643F, nearly the same (ΔE 0.8)Tailwind CSSyellow-800 #854D0E, close (ΔE 5.7)CSS color namessienna #A0522D, close (ΔE 6.2)

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.