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Tan #BB9768

Complete color analysis with professional format conversions, accessibility metrics, and harmonious color combinations for your design projects.

HEX
#BB9768
RGB
187, 151, 104
HSL
34°, 38%, 57%
CMYK
0%, 19%, 44%, 27%
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Accessibility

How readable text is on this colour, measured against WCAG 2.2.

White text
2.71:1 Fails
Black text
7.74:1 AAA

Use black text on this colour — it reaches 7.74:1 and clears AA at any size.

AA
4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large text and interface elements.
AAA
7:1 for body text, 4.5:1 for large text.

Color Variations & Tints

The same hue, lighter and darker. Each one has its own page.

Color Harmonies

Six established ways to build a palette around #BB9768. Click any swatch to copy its value, or open it to see the full breakdown.

Complementary

The colour directly opposite on the wheel.

#BB9768 This color
#688CBB
Use it when
Highest possible contrast between two hues. Use it when one element has to stand out against everything else: a call-to-action button, a highlight, a single focal point.
Watch out
Side by side at full saturation the edges appear to vibrate. Give one colour far less area than the other, or take saturation out of one of them.

Split-complementary

Instead of the opposite colour, the two next to it.

#BB9768 This color
#68B5BB
#6D68BB
Use it when
Almost the contrast of a complementary pair, but noticeably calmer. A good default when complementary feels too harsh: one dominant colour, two accents.
Watch out
The two accents are close to each other. Keep them apart in the layout, or one will read as a mistake.

Analogous

Direct neighbours on the wheel.

#BB6D68
#BB9768 This color
#B5BB68
Use it when
Naturally harmonious because the colours share undertones. Works well for backgrounds, gradients and calm interfaces where nothing should shout.
Watch out
Contrast between them is low. Do not rely on hue alone to separate interactive elements - vary lightness as well.

Triadic

Three hues at equal distance, 120 degrees apart.

#BB9768 This color
#68BB97
#9768BB
Use it when
Vivid and balanced at the same time. Suits playful, illustrative work and anything that needs three clearly distinct categories.
Watch out
Three strong colours are hard to balance. Let one dominate and treat the other two as accents, otherwise the result looks restless.

Tetradic

Four hues forming two complementary pairs.

#BB9768 This color
#68BB6D
#688CBB
#BB68B5
Use it when
The richest of the classic schemes. Useful when a design genuinely needs four distinct colours, for example a chart with four series.
Watch out
The hardest scheme to control. Choose one lead colour, use the rest sparingly, and watch the balance between warm and cool.

Monochromatic

One hue, stepped through lightness.

#5F482B
#947142
#BB9768 This color
#D3BB9C
#EAE0D1
Use it when
Always coherent, because there is only one hue. The natural choice for interface hierarchies, single-series charts and restrained designs.
Watch out
Can read as flat. Add one neutral or a single accent colour wherever something needs to be noticed.

Using this color

The same colour behaves very differently depending on where it sits. The mockups show it leading a design; the cards below state contrast ratios, so you can see at a glance what holds up.

Landing page
Brand ProductPricingAbout

A headline that carries the page

Supporting copy sits underneath, quiet enough to stay out of the way.

Get started Learn more

Good morning

Your dashboard

Balance

1,248.00

White card on the lead colour

The safest pattern in the set: the card carries the text, the colour carries the mood.

Action

Coloured card

A second surface, drawn from the same palette.

Gradients between neighbouring hues stay clean. Across the wheel they pass through a muddy middle - keep those short.

#BB9768 leads; the supporting tones are taken from its own scale, so what you see is one colour doing the whole job.

As a background

7.74:1 passes AA

Heading on this colour

Body text at black, the more readable of the two options.

Comfortable for body text at any size.

As a button

Primary action Secondary Subtle

The outlined and subtle variants use #906E41 for the label, a darkened version of this colour so the text stays readable.

As text on white

needs adjusting

The colour itself

Adjusted for readability

At its original lightness this colour does not reach the 4.5:1 minimum on white. #906E41 keeps the same hue and reaches 4.67:1.

As a section behind cards

Card title

White cards on a coloured band are a safe pattern: the card carries the text, the colour carries the mood.

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As an accent

Highlighted notice

A coloured edge draws attention without touching legibility.

Body copy with an inline link in the adjusted shade.

Badge Outline

In a gradient

with its neighbour
with its complement

Neighbouring hues blend smoothly. Complements pass through a muddy middle, so keep that gradient short or add a stop.

How others see this colour

Around one in twelve men and one in two hundred women perceive colour differently. Two shades that look distinct to most people can collapse into one for them - which is why meaning should never rest on colour alone.

Normal vision

#BB9768

Protanopia

#A49865

about 1% of men

Deuteranopia

#ADA069

about 1% of men

Tritanopia

#C88E8B

rare, affects both sexes

A scale you can ship

Ten steps from this colour, spaced in OKLab so each one looks as far from its neighbour as the next. Take it as a Tailwind palette, CSS variables, SCSS or JSON.

50 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
tailwind.config.js 
colors: {
  'tan': {
    '50': '#fff4e6',
    '100': '#fce6cb',
    '200': '#efd4b3',
    '300': '#dbbc94',
    '400': '#c09d6f',
    '500': '#a58254',
    '600': '#8b6a3d',
    '700': '#6d512b',
    '800': '#513c1f',
    '900': '#342716',
  },
}
CSS variables 
:root {
  --tan-50: #fff4e6;
  --tan-100: #fce6cb;
  --tan-200: #efd4b3;
  --tan-300: #dbbc94;
  --tan-400: #c09d6f;
  --tan-500: #a58254;
  --tan-600: #8b6a3d;
  --tan-700: #6d512b;
  --tan-800: #513c1f;
  --tan-900: #342716;
}
SCSS 
$tan-50: #fff4e6;
$tan-100: #fce6cb;
$tan-200: #efd4b3;
$tan-300: #dbbc94;
$tan-400: #c09d6f;
$tan-500: #a58254;
$tan-600: #8b6a3d;
$tan-700: #6d512b;
$tan-800: #513c1f;
$tan-900: #342716;
JSON 
{
    "tan": {
        "50": "#fff4e6",
        "100": "#fce6cb",
        "200": "#efd4b3",
        "300": "#dbbc94",
        "400": "#c09d6f",
        "500": "#a58254",
        "600": "#8b6a3d",
        "700": "#6d512b",
        "800": "#513c1f",
        "900": "#342716"
    }
}

Every value for this colour

This colour is the even blend of #FFFFD0 and #772F00.

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CMYK
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HSV / HSB
CIE-LAB
CIE-LCH
CIE-LUV
XYZ
xyY
Hunter-Lab
Decimal
Binary
Web safe

sRGB, white point D65, 2° observer. Hunter-Lab follows its classic definition on illuminant C.

Use it in code

The same colour in the notations you are likely to need.

CSS 
:root {
  --tan: #bb9768;
}

.element {
  color: #bb9768;
  background-color: rgb(187 151 104 / 10%);
}
Tailwind 
// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'tan': '#bb9768',
    },
  },
}
SCSS 
$tan: #bb9768;
$tan-light: lighten($tan, 15%);
$tan-dark: darken($tan, 15%);
Swift 
Color(red: 0.733, green: 0.592, blue: 0.408)
// UIKit
UIColor(red: 0.733, green: 0.592, blue: 0.408, alpha: 1.0)
Android 
<!-- colors.xml -->
<color name="tan">#BB9768</color>

// Compose
val Tan = Color(0xFFBB9768)
Other 
hsl(34, 38%, 57%)
rgb(187, 151, 104)
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