Orange #FFA500

About this color

#FFA500 is a light, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 79%, its chroma 0.171 and its hue 71°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Orange. Black text reads best on it, at 10.63:1.

Colors that go with Orange

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

Color palettes with Orange

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

• Paprika Kitchen
• Sumac Jar
• Paprika Rub
• Balloon Circus
• Pool Festival
• Hibiscus Break
• Slate Agenda
• Office Folder

Similar named colors

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

• Mango #FFA62B ΔE 0.011
• Orange Yellow #FFAD01 ΔE 0.019
• Squash #F2AB15 ΔE 0.024
• Yellow Orange #FCB001 ΔE 0.026
• Light Orange #FDAA48 ΔE 0.028
• Butterscotch #FDB147 ΔE 0.033
• Gamboge #EE9B00 ΔE 0.039
• Macaroni And Cheese #EFB435 ΔE 0.039

More about Orange

• Shades of orange
• Colors that go with Orange
• What Orange means

How to make 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.

• 3 parts yellow
• 1 part red

Recipe result: #FFA52C, a difference of ΔE 0.012 from Orange. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for 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 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 300.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FFF3E6

   oklch(97% 0.022 69.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FFE5C8

   oklch(93.6% 0.048 70.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFD098

   oklch(88.6% 0.089 71.2)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #FFA500

   oklch(79.3% 0.171 70.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #DB8D00

   oklch(70.7% 0.152 70.6)

6. Step 500

   500

   #BC7900

   oklch(63.1% 0.136 71.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #9F6500

   oklch(55.7% 0.12 70.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #865400

   oklch(49.1% 0.106 70.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #6E4500

   oklch(42.8% 0.092 71.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5C3900

    oklch(37.7% 0.081 71.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #382100

    oklch(27.1% 0.058 71.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

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.