#ac661bIt is a dark pastel orange color having an approximate luminance of 50%. It has a hue value of 31° indicating that this is a warm color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Liver (dogs), Copper, Windsor Tan, Golden Brown, Alloy Orange, Ochre, Cocoa Brown, Chocolate (Web), Tenné (Tawny) and Brown. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color #ac661b to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (172, 102, 27)
#ac661b
hsl (31, 72.9%, 39%)
hsv (31, 84.3%, 67.5%)
lab (49.9, 22.7, 50.5)
xyz (22, 18.4, 3.4)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #ac661b respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark pastel orange color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Persian Orange, Raw Sienna, Bronze, Tan (Crayola), Tumbleweed, Fawn, Middle Yellow Red, Desert Sand, Apricot, Peach Puff, Light Orange, Champagne Pink, Almond, Linen and Seashell.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark pastel orange color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Russet, Sepia, Chocolate (Traditional), Brown, Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Dark Brown, Kobicha, Bistre, Café Noir, Taupe, Dark Lava, Black Chocolate, Smoky Black, Eerie Black and Black.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark pastel orange color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Liver (dogs), Copper, Golden Brown, Liver Chestnut, French Beige, Tuscan Tan, Café Au Lait, French Bistre, Raw Umber, Shadow, Rocket Metallic, Sonic Silver and Middle Grey.
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains warm colors. There are variants of red, orange and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to OU Crimson Red, Falu Red, Salmon, Coral Pink, Sepia, Chocolate (Traditional), Sandy Brown, Carrot Orange, Antique Bronze, Field Drab, Vegas Gold and Old Gold.
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Liver (dogs), Copper, Blue Sapphire, Indigo Dye, Cyan (Process) and Aero.
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, violet and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Liver (dogs), Copper, Dark Slate Blue, KSU Purple, Bright Lilac, Maximum Blue Purple, Deep Jungle Green, Blue-green (color Wheel), Verdigris and Tiffany Blue.
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, green, azure, magenta and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Liver (dogs), Copper, Forest Green (Traditional), UP Forest Green, Ocean Green, Medium Sea Green, Blue Sapphire, Indigo Dye, Cyan (Process), Aero, Byzantium, Midnight, Persian Pink and Violet (Web).
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