Inspect BurlyWood (#DEB887) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.
BurlyWood
#DEB887
Black text reads best on this background, at 11.31:1.
BurlyWood is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #DEB887 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(222, 184, 135) and hsl(34, 57%, 70%). Perceptually it is a light, muted color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 80% and its chroma at 0.078. It sits in the oranges at 73 degrees of OKLCH hue, and reads as a warm color.
White text only reaches 1.86:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 11.31:1. That combination of lightness and chroma makes it a workable mid-tone, the kind of value that lands in the middle of a shade scale.
The closest CSS named colors to BurlyWood, measured with CIEDE2000, are Tan (#D2B48C), NavajoWhite (#FFDEAD), PeachPuff (#FFDAB9). If BurlyWood is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.
HEX
#DEB887
RGB
rgb(222, 184, 135)
HSL
hsl(34, 57%, 70%)
HWB
hwb(34 53% 13%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 17%, 39%, 13%)
LAB
lab(77.33 9.28 30.32)
LCH
lch(77.33 31.71 72.98)
OKLCH
oklch(80.45% 0.0779 73.42)
WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #DEB887 white text measures 1.86:1 and black text 11.31:1, so black clears it and white does not.
White text on BurlyWood
WCAG 2.2
1.86:1
APCA
Lc 39
Fails AA body text
Fails AAA body text
Fails AA large text
Black text on BurlyWood
WCAG 2.2
11.31:1
APCA
Lc 68
Passes AA body text
Passes AAA body text
Passes AA large text
Check BurlyWood against any other color in the contrast checker.
BurlyWood sits at 80% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it up to #FFF7ED and down to #0B0400, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.
#EAC392
20% lighter
#F5CF9D
40% lighter
#FFDBAC
60% lighter
#FFE9CE
80% lighter
#FFF7ED
100% lighter
#B28D5E
20% darker
#876536
40% darker
#5F3F0A
60% darker
#331E00
80% darker
#0B0400
100% darker
Build a full accessible scale from #DEB887 in the shade generator.
Hues rotated around #DEB887 in OKLCH, then pulled back into the sRGB gamut. Each swatch is labelled with the nearest CSS named color so you have a keyword to start from.
BurlyWood sits at 73 degrees. Rotating it a half turn lands on 253 degrees, the hue directly opposite. It is the strongest pairing you can make without changing lightness, and the one most likely to vibrate if you use both at full chroma.
The neighbors of BurlyWood at 43 and 103 degrees. They stay close enough to read as the same family, which is what you want for hover states, secondary surfaces and gradients.
73, 193 and 313 degrees divide the wheel into thirds. Balanced enough to carry a whole palette without one color dominating the other two.
Instead of the complement at 253 degrees, this pair flanks it at 223 and 283. You keep most of the contrast of a complementary pairing while losing the harshness.
Explore more combinations around BurlyWood on the color wheel.
The biggest shift is under tritanopia, where #DEB887 reads as #F0AEA9, 19.4 CIEDE2000 units away. If BurlyWood is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.
Protanopia
#C8B784
Deuteranopia
#D1C088
Tritanopia
#F0AEA9
Achromatopsia
#BDBDBC
The nearest CSS keywords to #DEB887, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.