Information about #BB8E25 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A strongly colored amber-leaning orange, #BB8E25 carries an easy, daylight feel. Designers typically reach for tones like this for logos, highlights and anything that needs to be noticed first. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Nugget (#BC9229). Slightly further away sit Wazzup (#BC9425) and University Of California Gold (#B78727).
In RGB terms — rgb(187, 142, 37) — the red channel does the heavy lifting here. On this background, black text reaches a 7.0:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 3.0:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #BB8E25 is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#BB8E25 color variations
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#BB8E25 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#BB8E25 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#BB8E25 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
#BB8E25 color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#BB8E25 color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Split complementary
Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.
Tetradic
Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Square
Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.
Alternatives to #BB8E25 color
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Nearest named colors to #BB8E25
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#BC9229
#BC9425
#B78727
#C48F2A
#B79826
#BB8E34
#BC9B1B
#C89828
#C5832E
#C58917
#BD7E2D
#BD9B16
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#BB8E25
- RGB187, 142, 37
- CMYK0, 18, 59, 27
- CSSrgb(187, 142, 37)
- HSL42°, 67%, 44%
- HSL Precise42°, 66.964%, 43.922%
- HSV42°, 80%, 73%
- HSB42°, 80%, 73%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.733
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.557
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.145
- GLSLvec3(0.733, 0.557, 0.145)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.733, 0.557, 0.145, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.733, 0.557, 0.145)
- Percentage of Red in RGB73.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB55.7%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB14.5%
- Color FamilyOrange
- Saturation FamilyHigh Saturation
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX IDBB8E25
- DECIMAL ID12291621
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers13 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
