#665442 is a muted, warm lime green. On the Color Lab it reads with a faded, vintage edge, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #665442 works with other colors. Named schemes with #665442 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
This palette keeps Umber as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Umber anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Umber plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Umber holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Umber is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Umber carrying the quiet middle.
How #665442 actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #665442 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #665442;
--color-base-rgb: 102 84 66;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(45.9% 0.037 66.7);
--color-50: #F9F7F6;
--color-100: #EFEBE6;
--color-200: #DFD6CE;
--color-300: #C5B8AA;
--color-400: #AA9988;
--color-500: #8D7A68;
--color-600: #6E6154;
--color-700: #50473F;
--color-800: #35302B;
--color-900: #211F1C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
umber: {
50: '#F9F7F6',
100: '#EFEBE6',
200: '#DFD6CE',
300: '#C5B8AA',
400: '#AA9988',
500: '#8D7A68',
600: '#6E6154',
700: '#50473F',
800: '#35302B',
900: '#211F1C',
},
}
$base: #665442; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F7F6; $base-100: #EFEBE6; $base-200: #DFD6CE; $base-300: #C5B8AA; $base-400: #AA9988; $base-500: #8D7A68; $base-600: #6E6154; $base-700: #50473F; $base-800: #35302B; $base-900: #211F1C; $base-hover: #514335; $base-subtle: #D4CCC4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#665442",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F7F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFEBE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFD6CE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5B8AA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AA9988",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8D7A68",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6E6154",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#50473F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#35302B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211F1C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}