Cinnamon #AC4F06

About this color

#AC4F06 is a medium-dark, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 54%, its chroma 0.141 and its hue 49°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Cinnamon. White text reads best on it, at 5.41:1.

Colors that go with Cinnamon

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

Color palettes with Cinnamon

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

• Maple Harvest
• Flow Pipeline
• Flow Workspace
• Mandarin Tonic
• Signal Orange
• Roast Table
• Caramel Grind
• Cinnamon and Molasses

Similar named colors

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

• Burnt Siena #B75203 ΔE 0.023
• Sienna #A0522D ΔE 0.030
• Raw Umber #A75E09 ΔE 0.035
• Burnt Umber #A0450E ΔE 0.035
• Burnt Orange #C04E01 ΔE 0.038
• Sinopia #BB3E03 ΔE 0.040
• Brick Orange #C14A09 ΔE 0.041
• Orangey Brown #B16002 ΔE 0.042

More about Cinnamon

• Shades of orange
• What orange means

How to make Cinnamon

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 orange
• 2 parts brown
• 1 part red

Recipe result: #AA5828, a difference of ΔE 0.023 from Cinnamon. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Cinnamon 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 Cinnamon

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

   #FBF4F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.009 52.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F5E7DF

   oklch(93.7% 0.019 52)

3. Step 200

   200

   #EED3C5

   oklch(88.6% 0.036 49.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #E3B59D

   oklch(80.8% 0.063 49)

5. Step 400

   400

   #D48D66

   oklch(70.7% 0.102 49.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #C76F3B

   oklch(63.1% 0.13 49.2)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #AC4F06

   oklch(53.7% 0.141 49.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #994400

   oklch(49% 0.131 49)

9. Step 800

   800

   #7C3909

   oklch(42.6% 0.108 49.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #643212

    oklch(37.7% 0.084 49.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #3B1E0C

    oklch(27.1% 0.054 50.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Cinnamon 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.