Inspect SaddleBrown (#8B4513) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.
SaddleBrown
#8B4513
White text reads best on this background, at 7.1:1.
SaddleBrown is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #8B4513 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(139, 69, 19) and hsl(25, 76%, 31%). Perceptually it is a mid-toned, moderately saturated color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 47% and its chroma at 0.112. It sits in the browns at 51 degrees of OKLCH hue, and reads as a warm color.
White text clears WCAG AA on a SaddleBrown background at 7.1:1, and AAA as well. 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 SaddleBrown, measured with CIEDE2000, are Sienna (#A0522D), DarkRed (#8B0000), Maroon (#800000). If SaddleBrown is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.
HEX
#8B4513
RGB
rgb(139, 69, 19)
HSL
hsl(25, 76%, 31%)
HWB
hwb(25 7% 45%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 50%, 86%, 45%)
LAB
lab(37.93 28.08 41.57)
LCH
lch(37.93 50.16 55.96)
OKLCH
oklch(47.08% 0.1121 50.85)
WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #8B4513 white text measures 7.1:1 and black text 2.96:1, so white clears it and black does not.
White text on SaddleBrown
WCAG 2.2
7.1:1
APCA
Lc 89
Passes AA body text
Passes AAA body text
Passes AA large text
Black text on SaddleBrown
WCAG 2.2
2.96:1
APCA
Lc 19
Fails AA body text
Fails AAA body text
Fails AA large text
Check SaddleBrown against any other color in the contrast checker.
SaddleBrown sits at 47% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it up to #FFF7F2 and down to #0E0300, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.
#AC6335
20% lighter
#CD8154
40% lighter
#F0A173
60% lighter
#FFCAAC
80% lighter
#FFF7F2
100% lighter
#723300
20% darker
#572500
40% darker
#3D1800
60% darker
#250C00
80% darker
#0E0300
100% darker
Build a full accessible scale from #8B4513 in the shade generator.
Hues rotated around #8B4513 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.
SaddleBrown sits at 51 degrees. Rotating it a half turn lands on 231 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 SaddleBrown at 21 and 81 degrees. They stay close enough to read as the same family, which is what you want for hover states, secondary surfaces and gradients.
51, 171 and 291 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 231 degrees, this pair flanks it at 201 and 261. You keep most of the contrast of a complementary pairing while losing the harshness.
Explore more combinations around SaddleBrown on the color wheel.
The biggest shift is under achromatopsia, where #8B4513 reads as #505050, 24 CIEDE2000 units away. If SaddleBrown is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.
Protanopia
#5A4810
Deuteranopia
#6A5614
Tritanopia
#A63836
Achromatopsia
#505050
The nearest CSS keywords to #8B4513, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.