Orange Red #FF4500

About this color

#FF4500 is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 66%, its chroma 0.229 and its hue 35°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Orange Red. Black text reads best on it, at 6.10:1.

Colors that go with Orange Red

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

Color palettes with Orange Red

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

• Lime Slice
• Cauldron and Pumpkin
• Jack Feast
• Jack Fog

Similar named colors

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

• Orangered #FE420F ΔE 0.007
• Blood Orange #FE4B03 ΔE 0.008
• Red Orange #FD3C06 ΔE 0.014
• Orangey Red #FA4224 ΔE 0.018
• Orange Pant #FB5607 ΔE 0.024
• Bright Orange #FF5B00 ΔE 0.034
• Vermillion #F4320C ΔE 0.036
• Light Red #FF474C ΔE 0.046

More about Orange Red

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Orange Red

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.

• 4 parts red
• 3 parts yellow
• 1 part orange

Recipe result: #EE522F, a difference of ΔE 0.034 from Orange Red. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Orange Red 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 Red

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 500.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FFF2EF

   oklch(97.1% 0.015 33.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FFE3DB

   oklch(93.7% 0.033 36.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFCBBE

   oklch(88.4% 0.062 34.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FFA78F

   oklch(81% 0.11 36)

5. Step 400

   400

   #FB6F4B

   oklch(70.6% 0.179 35.5)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #FF4500

   oklch(66% 0.229 35.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #CB3500

   oklch(55.6% 0.193 35.4)

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

    #781B00

    oklch(37.8% 0.132 35.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #4A0D00

    oklch(27% 0.094 35.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Orange Red 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.