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#922c01

a dark, electric orange · warm · closest name: Dark Red

Token name suggestion: Shadow Apricot

RGB
146, 44, 1
HSL
18°, 99%, 29%
CMYK
0, 70, 99, 43
Luminance
0.0791

#922c01 is a dark electric orange, 18° on the wheel and 7/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.13:1). As text it scores 8.13:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Red, nearest Tailwind family is red.

hsl(18 99% 29%)rgb(146 44 1)Base step 800AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #922c01 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#922c01
Hue
18°
orange
Saturation
99%
electric
Lightness
29%
dark
Brightness
57%
HSV value
Perceived
34%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0791
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
7/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
8.13:1
Closest name
Dark Red
ΔE2000 7.5
Chroma
61.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.445
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
red
500 · ΔE 23.2
Web-safe
#993300
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue18° of 360°
Saturation99%
Lightness29%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #922c01.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool7% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red77%
Green23%
Blue0%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#922c01
HEX (8-digit)#922c01ff
RGBrgb(146, 44, 1)
RGBArgba(146, 44, 1, 1)
HSLhsl(18, 99%, 29%)
HSV / HSBhsv(18, 99%, 57%)
HWBhwb(18 0% 43%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 70%, 99%, 43%)
LABlab(33.8 41.3 45.6)
LCHlch(33.8 61.6 47.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.445 0.144 38.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(12.76, 7.92, 0.88)
Decimal9579521
Display P3color(display-p3 0.573 0.173 0.004)
Web-safe#993300

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #922c01;
background-color: #922c01;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #922c01;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#922c01] bg-[#922c01]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #922c01;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.573, green: 0.173, blue: 0.004)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.573, green: 0.173, blue: 0.004, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#922C01</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF922C01)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF922C01)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(1, 44, 146)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(146, 44, 1)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(146, 44, 1)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 146, 44, 1)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5725f, 0.1725f, 0.0039f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{146,44,1}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #922c01 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #922c01 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7F2601, #EEDBD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #922c01 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FEF5F1;
  --brand-100: #FCEBE3;
  --brand-200: #FBD2C0;
  --brand-300: #FEB090;
  --brand-400: #FE8958;
  --brand-500: #FD6220;
  --brand-600: #F34902;
  --brand-700: #CB3D01;
  --brand-800: #922c01;
  --brand-900: #752706;
  --brand-950: #491804;
  --brand: #922c01;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCDC0;
  --brand-hover: #6E2101;
  --brand-pressed: #4B1701;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDBD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FEF5F1',
        100: '#FCEBE3',
        200: '#FBD2C0',
        300: '#FEB090',
        400: '#FE8958',
        500: '#FD6220',
        600: '#F34902',
        700: '#CB3D01',
        800: '#922c01',
        900: '#752706',
        950: '#491804',
        DEFAULT: '#922c01',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FEF5F1,
  '100': #FCEBE3,
  '200': #FBD2C0,
  '300': #FEB090,
  '400': #FE8958,
  '500': #FD6220,
  '600': #F34902,
  '700': #CB3D01,
  '800': #922c01,
  '900': #752706,
  '950': #491804,
);
$brand-base: #922c01;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FEF5F1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCEBE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBD2C0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FEB090", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FE8958", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FD6220", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F34902", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CB3D01", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#922c01", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#752706", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#491804", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #922c01 · 8.13:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.13:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.58:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #922c01 as text scores 8.13:1 on white and 2.58:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FFEDE6 at 7.17:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#922c01 · 8.13:1
AA on whitealready passes
#922c01
The quick fox
#922c01 · 8.13:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#922c01
The quick fox
#D44001 · 4.53:1
AA on black+13% L
#D44001
The quick fox
#FD6524 · 7.06:1
AAA on black+28% L
#FD6524

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #922C01 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#922c01 on white: 8.13:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#922c01 on black: 2.58:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #922c01 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #922c01.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.13:1AaAa
Slate 507.77:1AaAa
Slate 1007.42:1AaAa
Slate 2006.60:1AaAa
Slate 3005.48:1AaAa
Slate 4003.17:1AaAa
Slate 5001.71:1AaAa
Slate 6001.07:1AaAa
Slate 7001.27:1AaAa
Slate 8001.80:1AaAa
Slate 9002.20:1AaAa
Black2.58:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #4B4100
deuteranopia · #645800
tritanopia · #A20325

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #922c01 is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FEF5F1
#FCEBE3
#FBD2C0
#FEB090
#FE8958
#FD6220
#F34902
#CB3D01
#922c01
#752706
#491804
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FEF5F1Darkest = 950 · #491804Text step on white = 700
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.036 38.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.058 38.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.086 38.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.112 38.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.133 38.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.144 38.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.144 38.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.135 38.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.121 38.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.101 38.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.079 38.3);
}

Colors that work with #922c01

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#FAF6F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDCDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B624B
Captions on the surface
Accent#008C93
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7F2601
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFEDE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#6E2101
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4B1701
Two steps down
Disabled#9D7666
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A73200
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #922c01

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

friendlyenergeticaffordablesocial

Orange is red with the aggression taken out — approachable, active, and strongly associated with buying and doing.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Hard to make feel premium, and it collides with the "caution" band in status systems.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight71/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#016792
Analogous left#92011E
Analogous right#927401
Split-complement 1#019274
Split-complement 2#011E92
Triadic 1#01922C
Triadic 2#2C0192
Tetradic#1E9201
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°18°

#922c01 sits at 18°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.3%
Green17.3%
Blue0.4%
R · 0–255
146
0x92
G · 0–255
44
0x2c
B · 0–255
1
0x01

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta69.9%
Yellow99.3%
Key (black)42.7%

Total ink coverage is 212%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#922c01 text on a black background

contrast 2.58:1

Card sample

#922c01 text on a white background

contrast 8.13:1

Card sample

#922c01 on grey

7.42:1

#922c01 on its own surface

7.57:1

#922c01 on its dark surface

2.11:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #922c01;
Background color
Panel with #922c01 background
background-color: #922c01;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #922c01;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(146, 44, 1, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(146, 44, 1, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #922c01;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #922c01, #928D01);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #922c01, #739201);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #922c01;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #922c01;
caret-color: #922c01;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #922c01;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFEDE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #922c01;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#922c01 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #922c01 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(146, 44, 1, 0.5)
rgb(146 44 1 / 50%)
#922c0180
hsl(18 99% 29% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #922c01 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#922c011a#F4EAE6
20%#922c0133#E9D5CC
40%#922c0166#D3AB99
60%#922c0199#BE8067
80%#922c01cc#A85634

Gradients from #922c01

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CF3E01, #922c01 45%, #7F2601);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #922c01, #6E7301);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #922c01, #016792);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #ED4702 0%, #922c01 45%, #7F2601 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF6F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #C40139 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B09B01 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7F2601 0%, transparent 65%), #922c01;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #922c01

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#922c01 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
E-commerceFood deliveryLogisticsCreator tools
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 2.58:1 — lift it to #D44001 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#922c01, answered

What color is #922c01?

#922c01 is a dark electric orange, closest to Dark Red (ΔE2000 7.5). It sits at 18° on the hue wheel with 99% saturation and 29% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #922c01?

rgb(146, 44, 1) — 146 red, 44 green and 1 blue out of 255, or 57.3% / 17.3% / 0.4% by channel.

What is #922c01 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(18, 99%, 29%) and hsv(18, 99%, 57%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #922c01 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0791 and perceived brightness is 34%, so white text on it reaches 8.13:1.

Should I use black or white text on #922c01?

White. It scores 8.13:1 against #922c01, versus 2.58:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #922c01 accessible on a white background?

#922c01 on white scores 8.13:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #922c01?

#016792 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #019274 and #011E92, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #922c01?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCDC0 for borders, #9B624B for secondary text, #008C93 as an accent and #7F2601 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #92011E and #927401 stays calm, while #016792 is the loudest partner.

What is #922c01 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 70%, 99%, 43%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #922c01 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 7 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #AB4101; nudged cooler, #93000A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #922c01?

The red family — its 500 step is #ef4444, ΔE2000 23.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #922c01 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #922c01 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#922c01] or text-[#922c01], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #922c01 with 50% opacity?

rgba(146, 44, 1, 0.5), or #922c0180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C99680; over black, #491601.

Is #922c01 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #993300, ΔE2000 2.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #922c01 mean?

As a orange, it reads friendly, energetic, affordable. Orange is red with the aggression taken out — approachable, active, and strongly associated with buying and doing. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #922c01?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CF3E01, #922c01 45%, #7F2601). For more colour, a short hue run to #6E7301 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #922c01 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #922c01 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.