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Pictured: Pale brown, the closest color we have a photo of (#987654)
rgb(165, 105, 79)
#A5694F

Hot Cacao #A5694F RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Hot Cacao (#A5694F) is a moderately saturated, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 65% red, 41% green and 31% blue (R 165, G 105, B 79). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 18Β°, 35% saturation and 48% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.187, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 36% magenta, 52% yellow and 35% 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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Hot Cacao color codes

#A5694F in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #A5694F Valid CSS
RGB rgb(165, 105, 79) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(18, 35%, 48%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(18, 52%, 65%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(18 31% 35%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 36%, 52%, 35%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(57.95% 0.0863 44.06) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(57.95% 0.062 0.0601) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(50.66% 22.63 25.08) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(50.66% 33.78 47.95) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6135 0.4223 0.3279) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2198 0.1867 0.0984) Valid CSS
Decimal 10840399 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1867. Nearest web-safe color: #996666.

Mix Hot Cacao with other colors

See what #A5694F 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.

Use Hot Cacao 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--hot-cacao: #A5694F;
Sass variable$hot-cacao: #A5694F;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-hot-cacao: #A5694F; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'hot-cacao': '#A5694F' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.647, green: 0.412, blue: 0.31)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.647, green: 0.412, blue: 0.31, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="hot_cacao">#FFA5694F</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFA5694F)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #A5694F (4.73:1, AA). Here is how #A5694F does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.44:1 on white
APCA Lc 71
AA LargeTry #A4684E
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.73:1 on black
APCA Lc -31
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 Hot Cacao

#A5694F 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, #A5694F and #4FA569 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.

Hot Cacao in a user interface

A sample app screen with #A5694F as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #A5694F as it is. On the light theme, #A5694F is too hard to read as text (4.44:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A4684E there (4.50:1). On the dark theme, #A5694F is too hard to read as text (4.00:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #AE7157 there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Hot Cacao

These schemes turn the hue of #A5694F 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Hot Cacao

Four CSS gradients made from #A5694F. 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, #EEE0DA, #A5694F);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #A5694F, #2B1810);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A54F60, #A5694F, #A5944F);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A5694F, #86895C, #4FA569);

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Shades, tints and tones of Hot Cacao

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF4F0
  2. 100
    FFE7DD
  3. 200
    FBD0BE
  4. 300
    E9B39C
  5. 400
    CF9379
  6. 500
    A5694F
  7. 600
    955B42
  8. 700
    79462F
  9. 800
    603522
  10. 900
    472718
  11. 950
    291810

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #A5694F in three color systems that designers and builders use.

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of brown or search the color library.