Amber #FFBE0B

About this color

#FFBE0B is a light, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 84%, its chroma 0.171 and its hue 83°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Amber. Black text reads best on it, at 12.62:1.

Colors that go with Amber

Matches found by rotating Amber around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Amber

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Amber, closest first.

• Block Rally
• Poster Rally
• Stamp Edition
• Bauhaus Press
• Gallery Print
• Block Bulletin
• Harvest Wallpaper
• Slate Agenda

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Amber, with their ΔE distance.

• Marigold #FCC006 ΔE 0.007
• Golden Rod #F9BC08 ΔE 0.011
• Orangey Yellow #FDB915 ΔE 0.013
• Golden #F5BF03 ΔE 0.016
• Sunflower #FFC512 ΔE 0.017
• Golden Yellow #FEC615 ΔE 0.019
• Maximum Yellow Red #FCBF49 ΔE 0.025
• Yellow Orange #FCB001 ΔE 0.034

More about Amber

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Amber

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts yellow
• 1 part orange

Recipe result: #FCBC22, a difference of ΔE 0.010 from Amber. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Amber in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Amber

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 300.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FDF5E5

   oklch(97.2% 0.023 84.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FAE8C5

   oklch(93.7% 0.05 84)

3. Step 200

   200

   #F7D490

   oklch(88.4% 0.094 83.4)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #FFBE0B

   oklch(83.9% 0.171 83.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #CC9700

   oklch(70.8% 0.145 83.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #AF8100

   oklch(63.2% 0.13 83.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #936C00

   oklch(55.6% 0.114 83.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #7C5A00

   oklch(49% 0.101 82.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #664A00

   oklch(42.8% 0.088 83.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #553D00

    oklch(37.7% 0.077 83.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #332300

    oklch(26.8% 0.055 83)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Amber with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.