Umber color: hex codes, shades and palettes
Palettes built around umber. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.
A deep earthy brown from a natural iron-oxide pigment. Raw umber is cooler, burnt umber redder; this is the middle of the two.
No umber palettes yet
Run npm run generate to build the dataset.
Umber hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH
- HEX
#6B4A2F- RGB
rgb(107, 74, 47)- HSL
hsl(27, 39%, 30%)- OKLCH
oklch(43.9% 0.060 59.6)- On white
- 7.94:1
- On black
- 2.65:1
Shades of umber
Eleven 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.
Contrast and readability
Umber on white measures 7.94:1 and on black 2.65:1. 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 5.36:1.
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:taupe, brown, tan, sand, tuscan, clay. See every shade on the colors index.