Melon #FF7855

About this color

#FF7855 is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 73%, its chroma 0.173 and its hue 36°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Melon. Black text reads best on it, at 8.06:1.

Colors that go with Melon

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

Color palettes with Melon

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

• Marigold Horizon
• Ember Burn
• Blush and Saffron
• Aerial Sail
• Cumulus Drift
• Balloon Playground
• Gumdrop Playground
• Signal Orange

Similar named colors

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

• Pinkish Orange #FF724C ΔE 0.012
• Coral #FF7F50 ΔE 0.017
• Orange Pink #FF6F52 ΔE 0.018
• Salmon #FA8072 ΔE 0.031
• Tomato #FF6347 ΔE 0.039
• Salmon Pink #FE7B7C ΔE 0.044
• Dusty Orange #F0833A ΔE 0.047
• Burnt Sienna #E76F51 ΔE 0.050

More about Melon

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Melon

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 pink
• 1 part red
• 1 part yellow

Recipe result: #F57E5C, a difference of ΔE 0.019 from Melon. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Melon 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 Melon

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

   #FFF2EF

   oklch(97.1% 0.015 33.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FEE3DC

   oklch(93.6% 0.031 34.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FECCBE

   oklch(88.5% 0.06 36.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FEA790

   oklch(80.9% 0.109 35.5)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #FF7855

   oklch(72.6% 0.173 35.6)

6. Step 500

   500

   #F04100

   oklch(63.1% 0.219 35.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #CB3600

   oklch(55.7% 0.192 35.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #AB2C00

   oklch(49% 0.169 35.7)

9. Step 800

   800

   #8E2300

   oklch(42.8% 0.148 35.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #771C00

    oklch(37.7% 0.13 35.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #490F01

    oklch(27% 0.091 35.9)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Melon 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.