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Pictured: Raw umber, the closest color we have a photo of (#826644)
rgb(129, 84, 74)
#81544A

Root Beer #81544A RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Root Beer (#81544A) is a muted, medium brown. In RGB it is made of 51% red, 33% green and 29% blue (R 129, G 84, B 74). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 11°, 27% saturation and 40% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.115, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 35% magenta, 43% 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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Root Beer color codes

#81544A in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #81544A Valid CSS
RGB rgb(129, 84, 74) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(11, 27%, 40%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(11, 43%, 51%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(11 29% 49%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 35%, 43%, 49%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(49.29% 0.0628 33.1) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(49.29% 0.0526 0.0343) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(40.66% 18.35 13.95) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(40.66% 23.05 37.25) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4803 0.3372 0.2985) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1346 0.115 0.0799) Valid CSS
Decimal 8475722 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1150. Nearest web-safe color: #996633.

Mix Root Beer with other colors

See what #81544A 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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Use Root Beer 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--root-beer: #81544A;
Sass variable$root-beer: #81544A;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-root-beer: #81544A; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'root-beer': '#81544A' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.506, green: 0.329, blue: 0.29)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.506, green: 0.329, blue: 0.29, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="root_beer">#FF81544A</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF81544A)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #81544A (6.36:1, AA). Here is how #81544A does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.36:1 on white
APCA Lc 82
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.30:1 on black
APCA Lc -20
AA LargeTry #98695E

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 Root Beer

#81544A 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, #81544A and #4A8154 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 Root Beer

The drink behind the name

Root beer is a sweet soft drink from North America. It was made with the root bark of the sassafras tree. A pharmacist named Charles Hires made a root tea from sassafras in 1875. A year later he showed a version for sale at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and began selling his extract.

Which root beer?

The root beer on this page, #81544A, is a reddish brown, like the drink held up to the light. It comes from an open list of color names online, with no older source given.

Wikipedia's alphabetical list of colors shows root beer as #290E05. That is almost black, like the drink in a dark bottle. The two codes are very far apart. If you want a brown in between, try coffee or chestnut, or browse more shades of brown.

Root Beer in a user interface

A sample app screen with #81544A as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #81544A as it is. On the dark theme, #81544A is too hard to read as text (2.79:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A4756A there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Root Beer

These schemes turn the hue of #81544A 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#81544A#4A7781

Analogous

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

Open palette
#814A5Cthis#81544A#81704A

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#81544A#4A8154#544A81

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#81544A#4A8170#4A5C81

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#81544A#77814A#4A7781#544A81

Square

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

Open palette
this#81544A#5C814A#4A7781#704A81

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#412A25#754D43#A77165#C5A29A#E3D2CE

Gradients with Root Beer

Four CSS gradients made from #81544A. 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, #E6DBD8, #81544A);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #81544A, #1F110E);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #814A5C, #81544A, #81704A);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #81544A, #6C6C4F, #4A8154);

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Shades, tints and tones of Root Beer

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)

Root Beer 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
    F4D2CA
  4. 300
    E0B6AC
  5. 400
    C5968B
  6. 500
    A9796E
  7. 600
    81544A
  8. 700
    724941
  9. 800
    5A3831
  10. 900
    422923
  11. 950
    271916

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #81544A in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 8002 Signal brown#7B5141, nearly the same (ΔE 1.8)Tailwind CSSyellow-800 #854D0E, close (ΔE 5.9)CSS color namessaddlebrown #8B4513, close (ΔE 6.0)

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.