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#d77430

a balanced, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Chocolate

Token name suggestion: True Apricot

RGB
215, 116, 48
HSL
24°, 68%, 52%
CMYK
0, 46, 78, 16
Luminance
0.2715

#d77430 is a balanced vivid orange, 24° on the wheel and 3/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (6.43:1). As text it scores 3.27:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Chocolate, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(24 68% 52%)rgb(215 116 48)Base step 600AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d77430 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d77430
Hue
24°
orange
Saturation
68%
vivid
Lightness
52%
balanced
Brightness
84%
HSV value
Perceived
58%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2715
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
3/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
6.43:1
Closest name
Chocolate
ΔE2000 3.2
Chroma
62.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.660
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 6.3
Web-safe
#CC6633
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue24° of 360°
Saturation68%
Lightness52%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d77430.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool3% 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
Red53%
Green46%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#d77430
HEX (8-digit)#d77430ff
RGBrgb(215, 116, 48)
RGBArgba(215, 116, 48, 1)
HSLhsl(24, 68%, 52%)
HSV / HSBhsv(24, 78%, 84%)
HWBhwb(24 19% 16%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 46%, 78%, 16%)
LABlab(59.1 33.9 52.5)
LCHlch(59.1 62.6 57.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.660 0.147 51.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(34.81, 27.16, 6.20)
Decimal14119984
Display P3color(display-p3 0.843 0.455 0.188)
Web-safe#CC6633

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d77430;
background-color: #d77430;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d77430;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d77430] bg-[#d77430]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d77430;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.843, green: 0.455, blue: 0.188)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.843, green: 0.455, blue: 0.188, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D77430</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD77430)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD77430)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(48, 116, 215)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(215, 116, 48)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(215, 116, 48)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 215, 116, 48)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8431f, 0.4549f, 0.1882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{215,116,48}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d77430 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d77430 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6B3815, #EEDED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d77430 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: #FBF7F3;
  --brand-100: #F8EEE8;
  --brand-200: #F2DACA;
  --brand-300: #EDC0A1;
  --brand-400: #E4A072;
  --brand-500: #DB8143;
  --brand-600: #d77430;
  --brand-700: #AB5921;
  --brand-800: #89471A;
  --brand-900: #633617;
  --brand-950: #3E220E;
  --brand: #d77430;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD2C0;
  --brand-hover: #BF6325;
  --brand-pressed: #A1541F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EEDED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF7F3',
        100: '#F8EEE8',
        200: '#F2DACA',
        300: '#EDC0A1',
        400: '#E4A072',
        500: '#DB8143',
        600: '#d77430',
        700: '#AB5921',
        800: '#89471A',
        900: '#633617',
        950: '#3E220E',
        DEFAULT: '#d77430',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF7F3,
  '100': #F8EEE8,
  '200': #F2DACA,
  '300': #EDC0A1,
  '400': #E4A072,
  '500': #DB8143,
  '600': #d77430,
  '700': #AB5921,
  '800': #89471A,
  '900': #633617,
  '950': #3E220E,
);
$brand-base: #d77430;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF7F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8EEE8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F2DACA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EDC0A1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E4A072", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DB8143", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#d77430", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AB5921", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#89471A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#633617", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E220E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #d77430 · 6.43:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.27:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 6.43:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #d77430 as text scores 3.27:1 on white and 6.43:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6B3815 at 2.92:1.

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
#B65F23 · 4.52:1
AA on white−9% L
#B65F23
The quick fox
#87461A · 7.19:1
AAA on white−20% L
#87461A
The quick fox
#d77430 · 6.43:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d77430
The quick fox
#DA7F41 · 7.09:1
AAA on black+4% L
#DA7F41

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #D77430 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
#d77430 on white: 3.27:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d77430 on black: 6.43:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d77430 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d77430.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.27:1AaAa
Slate 503.12:1AaAa
Slate 1002.98:1AaAa
Slate 2002.65:1AaAa
Slate 3002.20:1AaAa
Slate 4001.27:1AaAa
Slate 5001.46:1AaAa
Slate 6002.32:1AaAa
Slate 7003.17:1AaAa
Slate 8004.48:1AaAa
Slate 9005.47:1AaAa
Black6.43:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #918127
deuteranopia · #A8972F
tritanopia · #EB5F66

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. #d77430 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF7F3
#F8EEE8
#F2DACA
#EDC0A1
#E4A072
#DB8143
#d77430
#AB5921
#89471A
#633617
#3E220E
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FBF7F3Darkest = 950 · #3E220EText 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 0.037 51.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.059 51.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.088 51.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.115 51.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.135 51.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.147 51.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.147 51.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.138 51.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.123 51.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.103 51.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.081 51.4);
}

Colors that work with #d77430

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

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#FAF7F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDD2C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B6B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1D98AF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6B3815
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBF1EA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#BF6325
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A1541F
Two steps down
Disabled#CAB9AD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E67D36
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #d77430

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #6B3815
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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight48/100
  • 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#3093D7
Analogous left#D73040
Analogous right#D7C730
Split-complement 1#30D7C7
Split-complement 2#3040D7
Triadic 1#30D774
Triadic 2#7430D7
Tetradic#40D730
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°24°

#d77430 sits at 24°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.3%
Green45.5%
Blue18.8%
R · 0–255
215
0xd7
G · 0–255
116
0x74
B · 0–255
48
0x30

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta46.0%
Yellow77.7%
Key (black)15.7%

Total ink coverage is 139%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d77430 text on a black background

contrast 6.43:1

Card sample

#d77430 text on a white background

contrast 3.27:1

Card sample

#d77430 on grey

2.98:1

#d77430 on its own surface

3.06:1

#d77430 on its dark surface

5.22:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d77430;
Background color
Panel with #d77430 background
background-color: #d77430;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d77430;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(215, 116, 48, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(215, 116, 48, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d77430;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d77430, #CBD730);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d77430, #A1D730);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d77430;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d77430;
caret-color: #d77430;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d77430;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBF1EA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d77430;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d77430 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d77430 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(215, 116, 48, 0.5)
rgb(215 116 48 / 50%)
#d7743080
hsl(24 68% 52% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d77430 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d774301a#FBF1EA
20%#d7743033#F7E3D6
40%#d7743066#EFC7AC
60%#d7743099#E7AC83
80%#d77430cc#DF9059

Gradients from #d77430

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, #E19663, #d77430 45%, #6B3815);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d77430, #AAC326);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d77430, #3093D7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E6A87D 0%, #d77430 45%, #6B3815 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DF5B72 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DCDB4A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6B3815 0%, transparent 65%), #d77430;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d77430

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.

#d77430 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

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

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 6.43:1.

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.

#d77430, answered

What color is #d77430?

#d77430 is a balanced vivid orange, closest to Chocolate (ΔE2000 3.2). It sits at 24° on the hue wheel with 68% saturation and 52% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #d77430?

rgb(215, 116, 48) — 215 red, 116 green and 48 blue out of 255, or 84.3% / 45.5% / 18.8% by channel.

What is #d77430 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(24, 68%, 52%) and hsv(24, 78%, 84%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d77430 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2715 and perceived brightness is 58%, so black text on it reaches 6.43:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d77430?

Black. It scores 6.43:1 against #d77430, versus 3.27:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #d77430 accessible on a white background?

#d77430 on white scores 3.27:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #B65F23 to reach 4.5:1, or #87461A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d77430?

#3093D7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #30D7C7 and #3040D7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d77430?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #EDD2C0 for borders, #9B6B4B for secondary text, #1D98AF as an accent and #6B3815 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D73040 and #D7C730 stays calm, while #3093D7 is the loudest partner.

What is #d77430 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 46%, 78%, 16%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d77430 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 3 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DB8446; nudged cooler, #D9352E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d77430?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 6.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d77430 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d77430 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d77430] or text-[#d77430], 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 #d77430 with 50% opacity?

rgba(215, 116, 48, 0.5), or #d7743080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EBBA98; over black, #6C3A18.

Is #d77430 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC6633, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d77430 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 #d77430?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E19663, #d77430 45%, #6B3815). For more colour, a short hue run to #AAC326 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d77430 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d77430 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.