Red Orange #FD3C06

About this color

#FD3C06 is a medium-light, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 65%, its chroma 0.233 and its hue 34°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Red Orange. Black text reads best on it, at 5.82:1.

Colors that go with Red Orange

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

Color palettes with Red Orange

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

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

Similar named colors

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

• Orangered #FE420F ΔE 0.008
• Orangey Red #FA4224 ΔE 0.012
• Orange Red #FF4500 ΔE 0.014
• Blood Orange #FE4B03 ΔE 0.021
• Vermillion #F4320C ΔE 0.024
• Orange Pant #FB5607 ΔE 0.036
• Red #FF0000 ΔE 0.038
• Fire Engine Red #FE0002 ΔE 0.038

More about Red Orange

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Red 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 red
• 2 parts yellow
• 1 part orange

Recipe result: #EC4D2E, a difference of ΔE 0.035 from Red Orange. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Red 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 Red 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 500.

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

   #FFA692

   oklch(80.8% 0.11 33.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #FD6D4E

   oklch(70.7% 0.183 33.7)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #FD3C06

   oklch(64.9% 0.233 33.6)

7. Step 600

   600

   #CF2D00

   oklch(55.6% 0.202 33.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #AF2500

   oklch(49.1% 0.178 33.7)

9. Step 800

   800

   #911D00

   oklch(42.8% 0.155 33.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #7A1700

    oklch(37.8% 0.137 33.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #4B0B01

    oklch(27% 0.096 33.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Red 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.