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#54572D

Hunter Green · dark warm yellow

About #54572D

With the hex code #54572D, this is a dark yellow with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 33% red, 34% green and 18% blue, while a printer would mix 3% cyan, 0% magenta, 48% yellow and 66% black. It reads as a warm colour.

If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Hunter Green and Coffee — a ΔE of 16.6 — followed by Coffee. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #302D57, a oxford blue shade.

In design, a dark colour like this works best for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 7.56:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (7.56:1).

Colour codes

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Red84
Green87
Blue45

Closest named colours

Hunter Green
#355E3B · ΔE 16.6
Coffee
#6F4E37 · ΔE 19.8
Fern
#4F7942 · ΔE 20.7

ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.

Text on #54572D

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #54572D.
7.56:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #54572D.
2.78:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #54572D appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#54572D
Protanopia (no red cones)
#5D542A
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#5D552F
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#59534D

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #54572D?

With the hex code #54572D, this is a dark yellow with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 33% red, 34% green and 18% blue, while a printer would mix 3% cyan, 0% magenta, 48% yellow and 66% black. It reads as a warm colour.

›What text colour should I use on #54572D?

Use white text. White on #54572D has a contrast ratio of 7.56:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #54572D?

Its complementary colour is #302D57, and analogous partners are #57452D and #3F572D.