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#443311

#443311

Browns · #431 is the three-digit shorthand for #443311. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#443311
RGB68, 51, 17
HSL40°, 60%, 17%
CMYK0%, 25%, 75%, 73%
Relative luminance0.04

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

12.16:1 Passes AA

Aa

On black

1.73:1 Below AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#112345

Analogous

#451A11#3D4511

Triadic

#114534#341145

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #431 and #443311 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #431 expands to #443311. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #443311?

White text. Contrast against white is 12.16:1 and against black 1.73:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #443311?

Taupe. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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