Antique Treasure Color

#bb9973

Antique Treasure is pale, warm-toned shade of orange. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with blue cyan, mid magenta or green cyan

Inverse Color #44668c
Complementary Color #7295bb
Color Shade: orange (31.67° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 59.22% (better contrasting with white)
Antique Treasure Color Sample
Antique Treasure Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #bb9973

If you're looking for a similar orange shade, there are some better alternatives to Antique Treasure Color. The Windsor Greige color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a warm red bias. Consider a darker and more soft alternative called Velddrif (#a17d61) for more calm effect. Try Palisade as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#7295bb is the best complementary color to Antique Treasure. Blue cyan shades generally complement the orange hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #bb9973 complementary color is Ship Cove, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of mid red, orange, and mid yellow colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Teak are #bb7572 and #b9bb72. Thus found on the left and right of #bb9973 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Old Rose and Gimblet colors as they work well with Antique Treasure.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Antique Treasure palette consists of #7572bb and #72b9bb colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#7295bb). Try Ship Cove and Neptune colors in combination with #bb9973, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #bb9973 offers a combination of violet and green cyan shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Antique Treasure. Thus Wisteria and Silver Tree giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Antique Treasure contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Ship Cove, Fern, and Fuchsia Pink split by 90° on the color wheel. #bb9973 square combo is a palette of orange, mid green, blue cyan and mid magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Antique Treasure tetradic combo consists of blue cyan complementary color (#7295bb) and two others. The Silver Tree is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Turkish Rose – 120° from the complementary Ship Cove. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #72bb99 and #bb7294.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #bb9973 is made of 41% red, 34% green and 25% blue. In a HSL mode Antique Treasure has a hue angle of 31.67°, a saturation of 34.62% and a lightness of 59.22%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #bb9973 is made of 0% cyan, 13.33% magenta, 28.23% yellow and 26.67% black ink.

HEX #bb9973
RGB Decimal rgb(187,153,115)
RGB Percentage 41%, 34%, 25%
CMYK 0, 13.33, 28.23, 26.67
HSL hsl(31.67,34.62%,59.22%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(31.67,38.5%,73.33%)
CIE-LAB lab(65.4243,7.3446,24.7387)
XYZ xyz(34.9793,34.5851,21.0516)
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