Orange Yellow #FFAD01

About this color

#FFAD01 is a light, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 81%, its chroma 0.170 and its hue 75°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Orange Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 11.22:1.

Colors that go with Orange Yellow

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

Color palettes with Orange Yellow

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

• Slate Agenda
• Office Folder
• Granite Folder
• Slate Handbook
• Pool Festival
• Hibiscus Break
• Harvest Wallpaper
• Paprika Kitchen

Similar named colors

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

• Yellow Orange #FCB001 ΔE 0.008
• Orange #FFA500 ΔE 0.019
• Squash #F2AB15 ΔE 0.022
• Mango #FFA62B ΔE 0.023
• Butterscotch #FDB147 ΔE 0.026
• Orangey Yellow #FDB915 ΔE 0.028
• Macaroni And Cheese #EFB435 ΔE 0.028
• Light Orange #FDAA48 ΔE 0.032

More about Orange Yellow

• Shades of orange
• What orange means

How to make Orange Yellow

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 yellow
• 1 part red

Recipe result: #FFB32A, a difference of ΔE 0.015 from Orange Yellow. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Orange Yellow 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 Yellow

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

   #FFF4E5

   oklch(97.2% 0.023 75.9)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FEE6C6

   oklch(93.6% 0.05 75)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FED192

   oklch(88.6% 0.094 75.4)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #FFAD01

   oklch(80.7% 0.17 74.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #D69000

   oklch(70.6% 0.149 74.5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B87B00

   oklch(63% 0.133 74.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #9B6700

   oklch(55.5% 0.117 74.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #835600

   oklch(49.1% 0.104 74.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #6B4600

   oklch(42.6% 0.09 74.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5A3A00

    oklch(37.7% 0.08 74.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #362200

    oklch(27% 0.057 76.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Orange Yellow 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.