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orange · warm

#daccb4

a light, soft orange · warm · closest name: Wheat

Token name suggestion: Morning Apricot

RGB
218, 204, 180
HSL
38°, 34%, 78%
CMYK
0, 6, 17, 15
Luminance
0.6139

#daccb4 is a light soft orange, 38° on the wheel and 8/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.28:1). As text it scores 1.58:1 on white — use #8C7245 instead. Nearest name is Wheat, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(38 34% 78%)rgb(218 204 180)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #daccb4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#daccb4
Hue
38°
orange
Saturation
34%
soft
Lightness
78%
light
Brightness
85%
HSV value
Perceived
81%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6139
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
8/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
13.28:1
Closest name
Wheat
ΔE2000 7.1
Chroma
13.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.850
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 21.5
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue38° of 360°
Saturation34%
Lightness78%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #daccb4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool8% 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
Red24%
Green70%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#daccb4
HEX (8-digit)#daccb4ff
RGBrgb(218, 204, 180)
RGBArgba(218, 204, 180, 1)
HSLhsl(38, 34%, 78%)
HSV / HSBhsv(38, 17%, 85%)
HWBhwb(38 71% 15%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 6%, 17%, 15%)
LABlab(82.6 1.0 13.7)
LCHlch(82.6 13.8 86.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.850 0.036 81.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(58.74, 61.39, 51.93)
Decimal14339252
Display P3color(display-p3 0.855 0.800 0.706)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #daccb4;
background-color: #daccb4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #daccb4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#daccb4] bg-[#daccb4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #daccb4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.855, green: 0.800, blue: 0.706)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.800, blue: 0.706, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DACCB4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDACCB4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDACCB4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(180, 204, 218)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(218, 204, 180)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(218, 204, 180)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 218, 204, 180)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8549f, 0.8000f, 0.7059f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{218,204,180}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #daccb4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #daccb4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#55452A, #EBE3D6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #daccb4 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: #F9F8F5;
  --brand-100: #F4F1EC;
  --brand-200: #E8E0D4;
  --brand-300: #daccb4;
  --brand-400: #C7B28E;
  --brand-500: #B59969;
  --brand-600: #A48551;
  --brand-700: #896F43;
  --brand-800: #6D5936;
  --brand-900: #50422A;
  --brand-950: #32291A;
  --brand: #daccb4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F5;
  --brand-border: #E4DAC8;
  --brand-hover: #CEBC9C;
  --brand-pressed: #C2AB84;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241E14;
    --brand-ink: #EBE3D6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F8F5',
        100: '#F4F1EC',
        200: '#E8E0D4',
        300: '#daccb4',
        400: '#C7B28E',
        500: '#B59969',
        600: '#A48551',
        700: '#896F43',
        800: '#6D5936',
        900: '#50422A',
        950: '#32291A',
        DEFAULT: '#daccb4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F8F5,
  '100': #F4F1EC,
  '200': #E8E0D4,
  '300': #daccb4,
  '400': #C7B28E,
  '500': #B59969,
  '600': #A48551,
  '700': #896F43,
  '800': #6D5936,
  '900': #50422A,
  '950': #32291A,
);
$brand-base: #daccb4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F8F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4F1EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8E0D4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#daccb4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C7B28E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B59969", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A48551", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#896F43", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6D5936", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#50422A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#32291A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #daccb4 · 13.28:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.58:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.28:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #daccb4 as text scores 1.58:1 on white and 13.28:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #55452A at 5.85:1.

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
#8C7245 · 4.56:1
AA on white−37% L
#8C7245
The quick fox
#6A5634 · 7.02:1
AAA on white−47% L
#6A5634
The quick fox
#daccb4 · 13.28:1
AA on blackalready passes
#daccb4
The quick fox
#daccb4 · 13.28:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#daccb4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #AE905B 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
#daccb4 on white: 1.58:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#daccb4 on black: 13.28:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #daccb4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #daccb4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.58:1AaAa
Slate 501.51:1AaAa
Slate 1001.44:1AaAa
Slate 2001.28:1AaAa
Slate 3001.07:1AaAa
Slate 4001.62:1AaAa
Slate 5003.01:1AaAa
Slate 6004.79:1AaAa
Slate 7006.55:1AaAa
Slate 8009.25:1AaAa
Slate 90011.29:1AaAa
Black13.28:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D3CBB3
deuteranopia · #D6CFB5
tritanopia · #E1C8C5

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. #daccb4 is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F8F5
#F4F1EC
#E8E0D4
#daccb4
#C7B28E
#B59969
#A48551
#896F43
#6D5936
#50422A
#32291A
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F9F8F5Darkest = 950 · #32291AText 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 0.009 81.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.014 81.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.022 81.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.028 81.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.033 81.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.036 81.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.036 81.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.034 81.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.030 81.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.025 81.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.020 81.3);
}

Colors that work with #daccb4

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#FAF8F5
Tinted page background
Border#E4DAC8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9A7D4C
Captions on the surface
Accent#406F8C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#55452A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7F3EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241E14
Dark-mode background
Hover#CEBC9C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#C2AB84
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E5D6BD
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 #daccb4

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • White text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #55452A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #AE905B

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight22/100
  • 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#B4C2DA
Analogous left#DAB9B4
Analogous right#D5DAB4
Split-complement 1#B4D5DA
Split-complement 2#B9B4DA
Triadic 1#B4DACC
Triadic 2#CCB4DA
Tetradic#B4DAB9
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°38°

#daccb4 sits at 38°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red85.5%
Green80.0%
Blue70.6%
R · 0–255
218
0xda
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
180
0xb4

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta6.4%
Yellow17.4%
Key (black)14.5%

Total ink coverage is 38%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#daccb4 text on a black background

contrast 13.28:1

Card sample

#daccb4 text on a white background

contrast 1.58:1

Card sample

#daccb4 on grey

1.44:1

#daccb4 on its own surface

1.49:1

#daccb4 on its dark surface

10.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #daccb4;
Background color
Panel with #daccb4 background
background-color: #daccb4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #daccb4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(218, 204, 180, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(218, 204, 180, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #daccb4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #daccb4, #CFDAB4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #daccb4, #C5DAB4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #daccb4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #daccb4;
caret-color: #daccb4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #daccb4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7F3EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #daccb4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#daccb4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #daccb4 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(218, 204, 180, 0.5)
rgb(218 204 180 / 50%)
#daccb480
hsl(38 34% 78% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #daccb4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#daccb41a#FBFAF8
20%#daccb433#F8F5F0
40%#daccb466#F0EBE1
60%#daccb499#E9E0D2
80%#daccb4cc#E1D6C3

Gradients from #daccb4

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, #EEE8DD, #daccb4 45%, #55452A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #daccb4, #BDD09F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #daccb4, #B4C2DA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F8F6F1 0%, #daccb4 45%, #55452A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF8F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #EBD7D6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DEE4C8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #55452A 0%, transparent 65%), #daccb4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #daccb4

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.

#daccb4 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 13.28:1.

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.

#daccb4, answered

What color is #daccb4?

#daccb4 is a light soft orange, closest to Wheat (ΔE2000 7.1). It sits at 38° on the hue wheel with 34% saturation and 78% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #daccb4?

rgb(218, 204, 180) — 218 red, 204 green and 180 blue out of 255, or 85.5% / 80% / 70.6% by channel.

What is #daccb4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(38, 34%, 78%) and hsv(38, 17%, 85%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #daccb4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6139 and perceived brightness is 81%, so black text on it reaches 13.28:1.

Should I use black or white text on #daccb4?

Black. It scores 13.28:1 against #daccb4, versus 1.58:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #daccb4 accessible on a white background?

#daccb4 on white scores 1.58:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #8C7245 to reach 4.5:1, or #6A5634 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #daccb4?

#B4C2DA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B4D5DA and #B9B4DA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #daccb4?

For interface work: #FAF8F5 as the surface, #E4DAC8 for borders, #9A7D4C for secondary text, #406F8C as an accent and #55452A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DAB9B4 and #D5DAB4 stays calm, while #B4C2DA is the loudest partner.

What is #daccb4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 6%, 17%, 15%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #daccb4 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 8 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DAC5B4; nudged cooler, #DBDBB3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #daccb4?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 21.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #daccb4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #daccb4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#daccb4] or text-[#daccb4], 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 #daccb4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(218, 204, 180, 0.5), or #daccb480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EDE6DA; over black, #6D665A.

Is #daccb4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 10.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #daccb4 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #daccb4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEE8DD, #daccb4 45%, #55452A). For more colour, a short hue run to #BDD09F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #daccb4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #daccb4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.