Rust color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around rust. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Rust is #B7410E, vivid orange. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and rust color palettes to copy.

Rust hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#B7410E

HEX: #B7410E
RGB: rgb(183, 65, 14)
HSL: hsl(18, 86%, 39%)
OKLCH: oklch(53.5% 0.163 39.5)
On white: 5.56:1
On black: 3.78:1

Shades of rust

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Rust color values

#B7410Ergb(183, 65, 14)

Color spaces of #b7410e
RGB	183	65	14
HSL	18°	86%	39%
HSV	18°	92%	72%
CMYK	0.00	0.64	0.92	0.28
XYZ	21.5005	13.8828	1.9629
Yxy	13.8828	0.5757	0.3717
CIE-Lab	44.0643	45.7560	51.1176
Hunter Lab	37.2596	37.7985	22.9582
OKLCH	53.5%	0.163	39.5°

#B7410E is 183 red, 65 green and 14 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #CC3300.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	10110111	01000001	00001110
Octal	267	101	16
Decimal	183	65	14
Hex	B7	41	0E

#b7410e mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#B7410E
#A43A0C
#92340B
#802D09
#6D2708
#5B2007
#491A05
#361304
#240C02
#120601
#000000

#b7410e mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#B7410E
#BE5426
#C5673E
#CC7A56
#D38D6E
#DBA086
#E2B39E
#E9C6B6
#F0D9CE
#F7ECE6
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red69.8%
Green24.8%
Blue5.3%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#B7410E
#007A94

Triadic

#B7410E
#008253
#5D5DC8

Analogous

#B7410E
#985F00
#B73858

Monochromatic

#240500
#511600
#832900
#B7410E
#E1673C
#FF9672
#FFD0C1

#b7410e on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 3.78:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 5.56:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #b7410e

color: #b7410e;
background-color: #b7410e;
border: 3px solid #b7410e;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #b7410e;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(183, 65, 14, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(53.5% 0.163 39.5);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Rust on white measures 5.56:1 and on black 3.78:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.66:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: coral, orange, peach, amber, terracotta. See every shade on the colors index.

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