Photo in the color Redwood
Pictured: Redwood, the closest color we have a photo of (#AB4E52)
rgb(160, 93, 77)
#A05D4D

Grand Canyon #A05D4D RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Grand Canyon (#A05D4D) is a moderately saturated, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 63% red, 36% green and 30% blue (R 160, G 93, B 77). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 12°, 35% saturation and 46% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.158, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 42% magenta, 52% yellow and 37% 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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Grand Canyon color codes

#A05D4D in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #A05D4D Valid CSS
RGB rgb(160, 93, 77) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(12, 35%, 46%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(12, 52%, 63%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(12 30% 37%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 42%, 52%, 37%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(55.07% 0.0918 34.3) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(55.07% 0.0758 0.0517) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(47.13% 26.82 21.59) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(47.13% 34.43 38.83) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5914 0.3773 0.3162) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1975 0.1584 0.0904) Valid CSS
Decimal 10509645 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1584. Nearest web-safe color: #996666.

Mix Grand Canyon with other colors

See what #A05D4D 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.

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DigitalGrand Canyon blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Grand Canyon 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--grand-canyon: #A05D4D;
Sass variable$grand-canyon: #A05D4D;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-grand-canyon: #A05D4D; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'grand-canyon': '#A05D4D' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.627, green: 0.365, blue: 0.302)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.627, green: 0.365, blue: 0.302, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="grand_canyon">#FFA05D4D</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFA05D4D)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #A05D4D (5.04:1, AA). Here is how #A05D4D does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.04:1 on white
APCA Lc 75
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.17:1 on black
APCA Lc -27
AA LargeTry #A66252

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 Grand Canyon

#A05D4D 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

#A05D4D stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Grand Canyon

A three color crayon

In 2007 Crayola sold a set of eight True to Life crayons. Each was extra long, came in a plastic case and mixed three colors. Grand Canyon combined a dark reddish brown, #6D3834, with a dusty red, #B36058, and black. Those codes are rough guesses listed in the Wikipedia list of Crayola colors.

The #A05D4D on this page lies between the two main crayon colors. It comes from an open online name list, not from Crayola. On this site it is very close to redwood.

The red tone fits the real place. One of the canyon's main rock layers, the Redwall Limestone, was named for the red color of its cliffs.

Grand Canyon in a user interface

A sample app screen with #A05D4D as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #A05D4D as it is. On the dark theme, #A05D4D is too hard to read as text (3.52:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #B36E5E there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Grand Canyon

These schemes turn the hue of #A05D4D 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#A05D4D#4D90A0

Analogous

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

Open palette
#A04D67this#A05D4D#A0874D

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#A05D4D#4DA05D#5D4DA0

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#A05D4D#4DA087#4D67A0

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#A05D4D#90A04D#4D90A0#5D4DA0

Square

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

Open palette
this#A05D4D#67A04D#4D90A0#874DA0

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#452821#7D493C#B06C5B#CB9E93#E6D1CB

Gradients with Grand Canyon

Four CSS gradients made from #A05D4D. 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, #EDDDD9, #A05D4D);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #A05D4D, #29140F);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A04D67, #A05D4D, #A0874D);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A05D4D, #838155, #4DA05D);

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Shades, tints and tones of Grand Canyon

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF4F1
  2. 100
    FFE7E1
  3. 200
    FECEC2
  4. 300
    EDB0A1
  5. 400
    D48F7F
  6. 500
    B67161
  7. 600
    A05D4D
  8. 700
    7D4335
  9. 800
    633327
  10. 900
    49251C
  11. 950
    2B1712

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #A05D4D in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 8023 Orange brown#A65E2F, very close (ΔE 3.7)Tailwind CSSamber-700 #B45309, close (ΔE 6.1)CSS color namessienna #A0522D, very close (ΔE 3.8)

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.