sienna — #A0522D
#A0522D
rgb(160, 82, 45) · hsl(19, 56%, 40%) · CSS keyword sienna
Can you put text on it?
| Contrast | Body text | Large text | |
|---|---|---|---|
| sienna on white | 5.62:1 | AA | AA |
| sienna on black | 3.74:1 | — | AA |
As a background, sienna takes white text: 5.62:1 against 3.74:1 the other way. A colour picker will give you the hex and stop there, which is why so many palettes look right and fail an accessibility audit.
Where the name comes from
A clay pigment from Siena in Tuscany. Raw sienna is yellow-brown; burnt sienna, roasted, is the redder colour the name usually means now.
Using it
color: sienna;
color: #a0522d;
color: rgb(160 82 45);All three are the same colour. The keyword is one of the 141 CSS named colours — a list settled in CSS 2.1 and added to exactly once since, when rebeccapurple was standardised in 2014.
Colours close to sienna
- saddlebrown — #8B4513
- indianred — #CD5C5C
- brown — #A52A2A
- chocolate — #D2691E
- firebrick — #B22222
- dimgray — #696969
Frequently asked questions
What is the hex code for sienna?
The hex code for sienna is #A0522D — RGB 160, 82, 45.
Can I use sienna for text?
Yes. sienna reaches 5.62:1 against white, past the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks for body text.
Should text on sienna be black or white?
White — 5.62:1 against 3.74:1 the other way.
Other named colours
- silver — #C0C0C0
- skyblue — #87CEEB
- slateblue — #6A5ACD
- slategray — #708090
- snow — #FFFAFA
- springgreen — #00FF7F
- steelblue — #4682B4
- tan — #D2B48C
- teal — #008080
- thistle — #D8BFD8
- tomato — #FF6347
- turquoise — #40E0D0
#A0522D in full — tints, shades and harmonies · All named colours · Colour reference