Brick Orange #C14A09

About this color

#C14A09 is a medium-dark, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 56%, its chroma 0.166 and its hue 42°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Brick Orange. White text reads best on it, at 4.94:1.

Colors that go with Brick Orange

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

Color palettes with Brick Orange

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

• Signal Orange
• Groovy Station Wagon
• Disco Carpet
• Mustard Patio
• Shag Station Wagon
• Mandarin Tonic
• Paprika Kitchen
• Turmeric Pantry

Similar named colors

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

• Burnt Orange #C04E01 ΔE 0.009
• Burnt Siena #B75203 ΔE 0.024
• Rust Orange #C45508 ΔE 0.024
• Sinopia #BB3E03 ΔE 0.027
• Cinnamon #AC4F06 ΔE 0.041
• Rusty Orange #CD5909 ΔE 0.041
• Copper #B66325 ΔE 0.051
• Orangey Brown #B16002 ΔE 0.053

More about Brick Orange

• Shades of orange
• What orange means

How to make Brick Orange

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.

• 4 parts red
• 4 parts orange
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #C14C2B, a difference of ΔE 0.019 from Brick Orange. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Brick Orange 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 Brick Orange

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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FCF3F0

   oklch(97% 0.011 39.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F7E6DF

   oklch(93.7% 0.021 43.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #F2D1C4

   oklch(88.5% 0.041 42.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #EBB19B

   oklch(80.8% 0.075 41.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #DF8663

   oklch(70.7% 0.12 42)

6. Step 500

   500

   #D36536

   oklch(63.2% 0.152 42.3)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #C14A09

   oklch(56.3% 0.166 42.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #A23B00

   oklch(49.2% 0.148 42.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #853001

   oklch(42.7% 0.127 42.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #6B2B0F

    oklch(37.6% 0.099 41.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #3F1A0B

    oklch(26.9% 0.063 41.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Brick Orange 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.