Yellow Orange #FCB001

About this color

#FCB001 is a light, vivid orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 81%, its chroma 0.169 and its hue 77°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Yellow Orange. Black text reads best on it, at 11.34:1.

Colors that go with Yellow Orange

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

Color palettes with Yellow Orange

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

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

Similar named colors

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

• Orange Yellow #FFAD01 ΔE 0.008
• Orangey Yellow #FDB915 ΔE 0.021
• Squash #F2AB15 ΔE 0.022
• Macaroni And Cheese #EFB435 ΔE 0.023
• Orange #FFA500 ΔE 0.026
• Butterscotch #FDB147 ΔE 0.027
• Golden Rod #F9BC08 ΔE 0.029
• Mango #FFA62B ΔE 0.030

More about Yellow Orange

• Shades of orange
• What orange means

How to make Yellow 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 yellow
• 1 part red

Recipe result: #FFB32A, a difference of ΔE 0.014 from Yellow Orange. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Yellow 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 Yellow 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 300.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FEF4E5

   oklch(97.1% 0.023 78.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FDE6C6

   oklch(93.5% 0.049 76.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FCD292

   oklch(88.6% 0.094 77.6)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #FCB001

   oklch(80.9% 0.169 77.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #D39300

   oklch(70.8% 0.148 77.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B57D00

   oklch(63.1% 0.132 77.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #986900

   oklch(55.6% 0.116 77.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #805800

   oklch(49.1% 0.102 78.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #6A4700

   oklch(42.6% 0.089 76.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #583B00

    oklch(37.6% 0.078 77.7)

11. Step 950

    950

    #352200

    oklch(26.9% 0.056 77.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Yellow 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.