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Tailwind orange-950

The hex code of Tailwind orange-950 is #441306 (rgb(68 19 6)), from its Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 value oklch(26.6% 0.079 36.259). White text on it reaches 15.65:1, passing WCAG AAA; below, Recolor (recolor.page) puts it on a page.

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#441306orange-950
From the theme file of Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 (--color-orange-950), converted with Recolor's color code, October 9, 2026
FormatValue
OKLCH, as Tailwind writes itoklch(26.6% 0.079 36.259)
Hex#441306
RGBrgb(68 19 6)
HSLhsl(13 84% 15%)
CSS variablevar(--color-orange-950)
Nearest CSS namemaroon #800000, 0.135 away in OKLab
White text15.65:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes
Black text1.34:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails

About orange-950

Read as numbers, orange-950 is lightness 26.6%, chroma 0.079 and hue 36.3 degrees; read by eye, it is a very dark brown. Orange-950 is the last and darkest of the eleven orange shades, 14.2 points under orange-900.

Its lightness is 15% in HSL and 26.6% in OKLCH, 12 points apart; only the second tracks how light it looks. No gamut mapping is needed here: oklch(26.6% 0.079 36.259) sits inside sRGB and #441306 matches it.

White on orange-950 reads at 15.65:1, enough for AAA body text; black reaches 1.34:1 and should stay off it. On the orange scale white text works from orange-700 to orange-950; orange-950 has 3 shades of margin.

CSS has no keyword in its neighborhood; maroon (#800000) is the nearest, a long 0.135 away in OKLab.

Tints and shades

  1. #dfd4d1
  2. #c0aaa4
  3. #a0827a
  4. #815c51
  5. #63372b
  6. #441306
  7. #330c03
  8. #230602
  9. #140301
  10. #070100
  11. #010000

From light to dark: 5 toward white and 5 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.

A palette around it

  1. #441306
  2. #e69e9e
  3. #745950
  4. #ffe0c8
  5. #997251

Around orange-950 as swatch 1, Recolor's generator made an analogous palette, hues next to each other on the wheel: #e69e9e, #745950, #ffe0c8, #997251, drawn from a seed fixed by its hex. Open it in Recolor.

Using orange-950

Pair it with text-white, 15.65:1; orange-950 as text on a white page measures the same ratio. In CSS it is var(--color-orange-950).

HTML
<a class="bg-orange-950 text-white" href="/start">Get started</a>
<p class="text-orange-950">Text in orange-950</p>

Common questions

Does white text pass WCAG AA on Tailwind orange-950?

Yes. White text measures 15.65:1 on orange-950, above the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks of body text, and above AAA's 7:1 too.

Is Tailwind orange-950 defined in OKLCH?

Yes. Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 defines it as --color-orange-950: oklch(26.6% 0.079 36.259); #441306 is its conversion to sRGB.

Is there a CSS named color for Tailwind orange-950?

No. The nearest CSS named color is maroon (#800000), 0.135 away in OKLab.

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