Color of the Day:

Brown Sugar#E2A76F

Brown Sugar - 08/31/2014

Brown Sugar is the Color of the Day for 08/31/2014. Brown Sugar has a hex value of #E2A76F. On the RGB scale it has values of Red: 226, Green: 167, and Blue: 111

Color Spaces of Brown Sugar

HexE2A76F#E2A76F
RGB226 167 111rgb(226 167 111)
RGB %89 65 44rgb(89 65 44)
CIELAB73.28, 17.74, 37.77
CMY11, 35, 56
CMYK0, 26, 51, 11
HSL29, 66, 66hsl(29 66% 66%)
HSV29, 51, 89hsv(29 51% 89%)
HSI29, 34, 168
HWB29, 44, 11hwb(29 44% 11%)
LCH73.28, 41.73, 64.85
XYZ50.32, 45.59, 16.16

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All About Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar is a warm and rich shade of brown that is reminiscent of the sweet, caramelized flavor of sugar. This color is often used in interior design and fashion to create a warm and inviting atmosphere.

Overall, Brown Sugar is a versatile and timeless color that adds a touch of warmth and comfort to any space or outfit. It is a popular choice for those looking to create a classic and sophisticated look, and pairs well with a variety of other colors. Whether you're looking to create a warm and inviting living room or a stylish and sophisticated outfit, Brown Sugar is definitely a color worth considering.

Brown Sugar in Fashion

In fashion, Brown Sugar is a popular color for clothing, such as jackets, pants, and skirts. It pairs well with a variety of colors, from soft pastels to bold and bright hues, and can be used to create a sophisticated and timeless look. Brown Sugar is also a popular color for accessories, such as shoes and handbags, giving an outfit a touch of warmth and luxury.

Brown Sugar in Interior Design

In interior design, Brown Sugar is a popular choice for furniture and accent pieces. It pairs well with other warm colors, such as oranges, reds, and yellows, and can be used to create a cozy and inviting living room or bedroom. Brown Sugar is also a popular color for hardwood flooring, giving a room a classic and timeless look.

Closest Common Color

Brown Sugar is closest to the common color brown. Brown is a mixture of several different colors. One common mixture is orange and black. Brown can be associated with resilience, strength and reliability. Brown is the color of dirt which makes it a natural color that is the most down-to-earth. You can see brown as the most common human eye color. Grizzly bears, footballs, chocolate, tree bark, and dirt are things that are brown.

Shades of Brown Sugar

A shade is a concept of darkening a color. Below you will find the shades of colors from Brown Sugar all the way to Black evenly distributed.

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Tints of Brown Sugar

A tint is a concept of lightening a color. Below you will find the tints of colors from Brown Sugar all the way to White evenly distributed.

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Tones of Brown Sugar

A tone is a concept of adding gray to a color. Below you will find the tones of colors from Brown Sugar all the way to Gray evenly distributed.

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Monochromatic Colors of Brown Sugar

A monochromatic color scheme is based on a single color and contains both shades and tints of that color. Below you will find a monochromatic color scheme based off of Brown Sugar.

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Complementary Color of Brown Sugar

Complementary colors are two colors that are the complete opposite of each other on the color wheel. Complementary colors are used by many including graphic designers, painters, and other artists. Knowing the complementary color for a given color is useful because using them together creates a visual contrast which can really make a design pop! Below you will find the complementary color of Brown Sugar.

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Split Complementary Colors of Brown Sugar

A Split Complementary color scheme is based on a single color and then finds the complementary color of the main color and uses that as a reference to find two colors to the left and right of that complementary color on the color wheel. A total of three colors make up a split complementary color scheme. A common example of a split complementary color scheme in an RGB Model is red, green-cyan, and blue-cyan. Below you will find a split complementary color scheme based off of Brown Sugar.

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Triadic Colors of Brown Sugar

A triadic color scheme is made up of three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. In a traditional sense you start with one color to as the baseline and the two other colors serve as accent colors. On the color wheel this can be envisioned as a triangle. Below you will find a triadic color scheme based off of Brown Sugar.

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Tetradic Colors of Brown Sugar

A tetradic color scheme is made up of four colors that form a rectangle on the color wheel. This color harmony is also known as a double complementary color scheme becuase it is made up of two complementary color pairs. Below you will find a tetradic color scheme based off of Brown Sugar.

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Analogous Colors of Brown Sugar

An analogous color scheme is made up of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. In a traditional sense you start with a single color as the baseline, a second color, and an accent color or a mixture of the first two colors as the third color. Below you will find an analogous color scheme based off of Brown Sugar.

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Variations of Brown Sugar

A variation of a color is the idea of swapping the values of Red, Blue, and Green with one another to create a new color. The color Brown Sugar has RGB values of R:226, G:167, and B:111. Using this information, we can create the following 5 variations using RBG, GRB, GBR, BRG, and GBR. Out of the 5 possible variations of Brown Sugar, 5 of them will be unique without counting our orignal color of Brown Sugar.

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Web Safe Color of Brown Sugar

A web safe color is a color that will not be dithered when shown on a web browser that only has 256-color support. Although this is not much of an issue in modern browsers today it is important to understand the history. A web safe color will always appear as intended across any device/browser. There are 216 colors that are considered web safe. Below you will find the closest web safe color to Brown Sugar.

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CSS Code for Brown Sugar

Text Color
.text-class { color: #E2A76F; }

This paragraph tag has text in the color #E2A76F

Text Shadow Color
.txt-shdw-class { text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #E2A76F; }

This text has a shadow in the color #E2A76F

Border Color
.brdr-class { border: 5px solid #E2A76F; }

This div tag has a border color of #E2A76F

Background Color
.bg-class { background-color: #E2A76F; }

This div tag has a background color of #E2A76F

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Brown Sugar Accessibility

When it comes to accessibility it is important to consider the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 issued by W3C. The WCAG provides a set of standards to determine if two colors have an appropriate contrast ratio in order to be readable on a web. This is achieved by measuring luminance, also known as brightness, between the color of your text and the background color. The WCAG has several levels of conformance: (A - Lowest, AA - Mid Range, AAA - Highest). If you meet the requirements of a higher range of conformance then you automatically meet the lower levels. For Example, if you meet AAA then by default you also meet AA and A. The contrast ratios that need to be met also consider the size of the font. Below are the contrast ratios needed to be compliant.

  • Level AA (large text/18-point font): 3:1
  • Level AA: 4.5:1
  • Level AAA (large text/18-point font): 4.5:1
  • Level AAA: 7:1

In the following sections we take a look at conformance levels AA and AAA for both large sized text and normal sized text. We took care of all the calculations so you will be able to see right away whether or not a text color of Brown Sugar is readable according to the WCAG against both Black and White backgrounds.

Brown Sugar Contrast on Black Background

The color Brown Sugar has passed 4 out of 4 WCAG tests against a Black background. This means there is a 100% accessibility rating and therefore makes Brown Sugar a perfect choice against a Black background.

WCAG AALarge TextPass
WCAG AANormal TextPass
WCAG AAALarge TextPass
WCAG AAANormal TextPass

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Brown Sugar Contrast on White Background

The color Brown Sugar has passed 0 out of 4 WCAG tests against a White background. This means there is a 0% accessibility rating and therefore makes Brown Sugar a poor choice against a White background.

WCAG AALarge TextFail
WCAG AANormal TextFail
WCAG AAALarge TextFail
WCAG AAANormal TextFail

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