Orange Pink #FF6F52

About this color

#FF6F52 is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 71%, its chroma 0.182 and its hue 33°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Orange Pink. Black text reads best on it, at 7.64:1.

Colors that go with Orange Pink

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

Color palettes with Orange Pink

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

• Gumdrop Playground
• Balloon Playground
• Hibiscus Break
• Marigold Horizon
• Ember Burn
• Blush and Saffron
• Aerial Sail
• Cumulus Drift

Similar named colors

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

• Pinkish Orange #FF724C ΔE 0.010
• Melon #FF7855 ΔE 0.018
• Tomato #FF6347 ΔE 0.022
• Coral #FF7F50 ΔE 0.034
• Coral Pink #FF6163 ΔE 0.038
• Salmon #FA8072 ΔE 0.040
• Burnt Sienna #E76F51 ΔE 0.044
• Grapefruit #FD5956 ΔE 0.044

More about Orange Pink

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Orange Pink

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 orange
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #F7704E, a difference of ΔE 0.016 from Orange Pink. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Orange Pink 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 Pink

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

   #FFE3DC

   oklch(93.7% 0.032 34.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFCBBF

   oklch(88.5% 0.062 33.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FFA693

   oklch(80.9% 0.11 32.7)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #FF6F52

   oklch(71.3% 0.182 33.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #F63400

   oklch(63.1% 0.233 33)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D02B00

   oklch(55.7% 0.205 33.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B02200

   oklch(49.1% 0.181 33)

9. Step 800

   800

   #911B00

   oklch(42.6% 0.157 33.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #7A1500

    oklch(37.6% 0.138 33.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #4B0B02

    oklch(27% 0.096 32.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Orange Pink 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.