Burnt Sienna #E76F51

About this color

#E76F51 is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 68%, its chroma 0.156 and its hue 35°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Burnt Sienna. Black text reads best on it, at 6.79:1.

Colors that go with Burnt Sienna

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

Color palettes with Burnt Sienna

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

• Evergreen Lights
• Cardamom Bazaar
• Wine Room
• Wine Evening
• Mahogany Lounge
• Oxblood Table
• Balloon Playground
• Pomelo Slice

Similar named colors

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

• Dark Peach #DE7E5D ΔE 0.033
• Orange Pink #FF6F52 ΔE 0.044
• Tomato #FF6347 ΔE 0.044
• Pinkish Orange #FF724C ΔE 0.045
• Melon #FF7855 ΔE 0.050
• Grapefruit #FD5956 ΔE 0.055
• Coral Pink #FF6163 ΔE 0.056
• Terracota #CB6843 ΔE 0.057

More about Burnt Sienna

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Burnt Sienna

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.

• 1 part red
• 1 part yellow
• 1 part pink

Recipe result: #F56D40, a difference of ΔE 0.028 from Burnt Sienna. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Burnt Sienna 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 Burnt Sienna

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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FEF3F0

   oklch(97.2% 0.013 35.7)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FCE4DD

   oklch(93.6% 0.028 36.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FBCDC1

   oklch(88.5% 0.055 35)

4. Step 300

   300

   #F8AA96

   oklch(80.8% 0.097 35)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #E76F51

   oklch(67.8% 0.156 35.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E84C23

   oklch(63% 0.199 35.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #CB3400

   oklch(55.5% 0.194 35.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #AC2B00

   oklch(49.1% 0.171 35.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #8E2200

   oklch(42.7% 0.148 35.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #771C02

    oklch(37.7% 0.129 35.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #461306

    oklch(27% 0.081 35.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Burnt Sienna 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.