Rust Orange #C45508

About this color

#C45508 is a medium-dark, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 58%, its chroma 0.160 and its hue 46°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Rust Orange. Black text reads best on it, at 4.65:1.

Colors that go with Rust Orange

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

Color palettes with Rust Orange

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

• Groovy Station Wagon
• Disco Carpet
• Mustard Patio
• Shag Station Wagon
• Mint Roadmap
• Lime Squeeze
• Signal Orange
• Wine and Burgundy

Similar named colors

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

• Burnt Orange #C04E01 ΔE 0.017
• Rusty Orange #CD5909 ΔE 0.020
• Brick Orange #C14A09 ΔE 0.024
• Burnt Siena #B75203 ΔE 0.027
• Orange Brown #BE6400 ΔE 0.034
• Copper #B66325 ΔE 0.035
• Terra Cotta #C9643B ΔE 0.041
• Orangey Brown #B16002 ΔE 0.041

More about Rust Orange

• Shades of orange
• What orange means

How to make Rust 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.

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

Recipe result: #BF572A, a difference of ΔE 0.019 from Rust Orange. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Rust 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 Rust 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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FBF4F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.009 52.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F6E6DE

   oklch(93.6% 0.021 48.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #F1D2C3

   oklch(88.6% 0.04 47.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #E9B39A

   oklch(81% 0.072 46)

5. Step 400

   400

   #DB8961

   oklch(70.7% 0.115 46.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #CF6831

   oklch(63% 0.147 46.1)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #C45508

   oklch(58.3% 0.16 46.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #9C4100

   oklch(49% 0.137 46.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #813400

   oklch(42.6% 0.119 46.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #692E0B

    oklch(37.7% 0.096 46.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #3E1B09

    oklch(26.9% 0.062 45.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Rust 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.