What is hex #A17840 color?

 
In professional design frameworks, this hue is considered a balanced and versatile hue. It is ideal for creating smooth color harmony, digital artwork, or minimalist web components.

From a technical standpoint, this color is composed of 63% red, 47% green and 25% blue, resulting in an RGB value of (161,120,64).
For print media and manufacturing layout, the CMYK colors code equivalent is (0%, 25%, 60%, 37%).
In the HSV/HSB scale, #A17840 features a hue of 35°, 60% saturation, and a brightness value of 63%.

Hex #A17840 Color Codes & Equivalents

RGB Values (161,120,64)
CMYK Values (0%, 25%, 60%, 37%)
HSV/HSB Values (35°, 60%, 63%)
Closest Web Safe
#996633
Inverse Color
#5E87BF
Closest Pantone®
4505 C
Closest RAL
RAL 1011 [Brown beige]
Complementary Color
#4069A1

#A17840 Converted to Grayscale Codes

Average
#727272
Lightness (Desaturation)
#707070
Weighted (BT601)
#7E7E7E
Luma (BT709)
#7D7D7D

Hex #A17840 Color Palettes

Complementary Palette

The complementary color of #A17840 is #4069A1. To get this value, we need to use the RGB metrics, and take this opposite color at the end of the color wheel, so for #A17840 you will find #4069A1. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two colors. Complementary colors may also be called "opposite colors". So if you need to grab attention, you should use it.

Analogous Palette

The analogous color scheme of #A17840 is composed with colors #A14740 and #99A140. Colors are called analogous colors when they are very similar to each other. They are located to the right and left of your main color #A17840 with a 30° separation on the RGB color wheel. An analogous color palette is best used with either warm or cool colors, creating a look that has a certain temperature as well as proper color harmony.

Split-Complementary Palette

The split-complementary color scheme of #A17840 is composed with colors #4740A1 and #4099A1. A split-complementary color palette is like an analogous palette but you will take the complementary color as base instead of your main color. This choice, however, also makes the split complementary color combinations less vibrant and eye-catching, but it's also a good choice for beginners as you can hardly go wrong.

Triadic Palette

The triadic color scheme of #A17840 is composed with colors #7840A1 and #40A178. They are located to the right and left of your main color #A17840 with a 120° separation on the RGB color wheel. With it you have the maximum variation in hue and offering by the same occasion the best possible contrast when taken together.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic color scheme of #A17840 is composed with colors #40A178, #4069A1 and #A14069 A tetradic color scheme, an outstanding variant of the twin color scheme, with an equal distance between all colors. All four colors are divided evenly around the color wheel. Like this there being no clear dominance of one color overs others. Colorful palettes create a sense of diversity, optimism and openness which are positive for a consumer brand. You can find the tetradic color scheme on big tech company logo like Google, Slack, Zoho, Microsoft, eBay for example. For a better result, you can also adjust saturation and brightness.

Square Palette

The square color scheme of #A17840 is composed with colors #40A147, #4069A1 and #A14099 To get this color, it's pretty the same method that analogous or triadic, but instead, you will take an angle of 90° on the RGB Wheel between each colors. The square palette looks a lot like the Tetradic palette but it is less dark which is nicer in my opinion.

Tints, Tones & Shades of Hex #A17840

Tints

Tints are created by adding white, resulting in lighter shades of #A17840.

Tones

Tones are made by mixing with gray, softening the original color.

Shades

Shades result from adding black, creating darker variations.

Hex #A17840 in programming languages

If you are a developer, you will find below the color codes to use according to your programming language (HTML, JAVA, Python, .NET), enjoy!

HTML, CSS #A17840
Java new Color(161,120,64);
Python Color(#A17840)
.NET Color.FromArgb(255, 161,120,64);
Swift / iOS UIColor(red: 0.63, green: 0.47, blue: 0.25, alpha: 1)
Kotlin / Android Color.rgb(161, 120, 64)