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orange · warm

#eb834c

a balanced, electric orange · warm · closest name: Coral

Token name suggestion: True Marmalade

RGB
235, 131, 76
HSL
21°, 80%, 61%
CMYK
0, 44, 68, 8
Luminance
0.3442

#eb834c is a balanced electric orange, 21° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.88:1). As text it scores 2.66:1 on white — use #C55316 instead. Nearest name is Coral, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(21 80% 61%)rgb(235 131 76)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eb834c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eb834c
Hue
21°
orange
Saturation
80%
electric
Lightness
61%
balanced
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
65%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3442
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
7.88:1
Closest name
Coral
ΔE2000 4.9
Chroma
58.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.714
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 6.1
Web-safe
#FF9933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue21° of 360°
Saturation80%
Lightness61%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eb834c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool5% 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
Red51%
Green47%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#eb834c
HEX (8-digit)#eb834cff
RGBrgb(235, 131, 76)
RGBArgba(235, 131, 76, 1)
HSLhsl(21, 80%, 61%)
HSV / HSBhsv(21, 68%, 92%)
HWBhwb(21 30% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 44%, 68%, 8%)
LABlab(65.3 35.5 46.5)
LCHlch(65.3 58.5 52.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.714 0.145 47.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(43.69, 34.42, 11.18)
Decimal15434572
Display P3color(display-p3 0.922 0.514 0.298)
Web-safe#FF9933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eb834c;
background-color: #eb834c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eb834c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eb834c] bg-[#eb834c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eb834c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.922, green: 0.514, blue: 0.298)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.922, green: 0.514, blue: 0.298, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EB834C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEB834C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEB834C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(76, 131, 235)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(235, 131, 76)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(235, 131, 76)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 235, 131, 76)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9216f, 0.5137f, 0.2980f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{235,131,76}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eb834c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eb834c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#73300D, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eb834c 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: #FCF6F3;
  --brand-100: #F9EDE6;
  --brand-200: #F5D7C7;
  --brand-300: #F4B99A;
  --brand-400: #EE9668;
  --brand-500: #eb834c;
  --brand-600: #DC5C19;
  --brand-700: #B74D15;
  --brand-800: #933E10;
  --brand-900: #6A2F10;
  --brand-950: #421E0A;
  --brand: #eb834c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCFC0;
  --brand-hover: #E76D2C;
  --brand-pressed: #D85A18;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF6F3',
        100: '#F9EDE6',
        200: '#F5D7C7',
        300: '#F4B99A',
        400: '#EE9668',
        500: '#eb834c',
        600: '#DC5C19',
        700: '#B74D15',
        800: '#933E10',
        900: '#6A2F10',
        950: '#421E0A',
        DEFAULT: '#eb834c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF6F3,
  '100': #F9EDE6,
  '200': #F5D7C7,
  '300': #F4B99A,
  '400': #EE9668,
  '500': #eb834c,
  '600': #DC5C19,
  '700': #B74D15,
  '800': #933E10,
  '900': #6A2F10,
  '950': #421E0A,
);
$brand-base: #eb834c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF6F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9EDE6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F5D7C7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F4B99A", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EE9668", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#eb834c", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#DC5C19", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B74D15", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#933E10", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6A2F10", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#421E0A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #eb834c · 7.88:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.66:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.88:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eb834c as text scores 2.66:1 on white and 7.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #73300D at 3.65:1.

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
#C55316 · 4.54:1
AA on white−18% L
#C55316
The quick fox
#933E10 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−29% L
#933E10
The quick fox
#eb834c · 7.88:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eb834c
The quick fox
#eb834c · 7.88:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eb834c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #E87335 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
#eb834c on white: 2.66:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eb834c on black: 7.88:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eb834c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eb834c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.66:1AaAa
Slate 502.55:1AaAa
Slate 1002.43:1AaAa
Slate 2002.16:1AaAa
Slate 3001.79:1AaAa
Slate 4001.04:1AaAa
Slate 5001.79:1AaAa
Slate 6002.84:1AaAa
Slate 7003.89:1AaAa
Slate 8005.49:1AaAa
Slate 9006.70:1AaAa
Black7.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #A09046
deuteranopia · #B9A74B
tritanopia · #FF6E76

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. #eb834c is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FCF6F3
#F9EDE6
#F5D7C7
#F4B99A
#EE9668
#eb834c
#DC5C19
#B74D15
#933E10
#6A2F10
#421E0A
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #FCF6F3Darkest = 950 · #421E0AText 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 47.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.058 47.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.087 47.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.113 47.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.134 47.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.145 47.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.145 47.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.137 47.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.122 47.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.102 47.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.080 47.1);
}

Colors that work with #eb834c

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#FAF6F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDCFC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B664B
Captions on the surface
Accent#10ABBC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#73300D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCEFE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#E76D2C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D85A18
Two steps down
Disabled#DDD1CA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F68D56
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 #eb834c

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

Works well for
  • 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
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #73300D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #E87335

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight39/100
  • 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#4CB4EB
Analogous left#EB4C64
Analogous right#EBD34C
Split-complement 1#4CEBD3
Split-complement 2#4C64EB
Triadic 1#4CEB83
Triadic 2#834CEB
Tetradic#64EB4C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°21°

#eb834c sits at 21°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.2%
Green51.4%
Blue29.8%
R · 0–255
235
0xeb
G · 0–255
131
0x83
B · 0–255
76
0x4c

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta44.3%
Yellow67.7%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 120%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eb834c text on a black background

contrast 7.88:1

Card sample

#eb834c text on a white background

contrast 2.66:1

Card sample

#eb834c on grey

2.43:1

#eb834c on its own surface

2.48:1

#eb834c on its dark surface

6.44:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eb834c;
Background color
Panel with #eb834c background
background-color: #eb834c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eb834c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(235, 131, 76, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(235, 131, 76, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eb834c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eb834c, #E9EB4C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eb834c, #C1EB4C);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eb834c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eb834c;
caret-color: #eb834c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eb834c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCEFE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eb834c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eb834c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eb834c 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(235, 131, 76, 0.5)
rgb(235 131 76 / 50%)
#eb834c80
hsl(21 80% 61% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eb834c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eb834c1a#FDF3ED
20%#eb834c33#FBE6DB
40%#eb834c66#F7CDB7
60%#eb834c99#F3B594
80%#eb834ccc#EF9C70

Gradients from #eb834c

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, #F1A983, #eb834c 45%, #73300D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eb834c, #D6E831);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eb834c, #4CB4EB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4BC9F 0%, #eb834c 45%, #73300D 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%, #F07A96 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EEE568 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #73300D 0%, transparent 65%), #eb834c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eb834c

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.

#eb834c 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 7.88:1.

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.

#eb834c, answered

What color is #eb834c?

#eb834c is a balanced electric orange, closest to Coral (ΔE2000 4.9). It sits at 21° on the hue wheel with 80% saturation and 61% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #eb834c?

rgb(235, 131, 76) — 235 red, 131 green and 76 blue out of 255, or 92.2% / 51.4% / 29.8% by channel.

What is #eb834c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(21, 80%, 61%) and hsv(21, 68%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eb834c a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3442 and perceived brightness is 65%, so black text on it reaches 7.88:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eb834c?

Black. It scores 7.88:1 against #eb834c, versus 2.66:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eb834c accessible on a white background?

#eb834c on white scores 2.66:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C55316 to reach 4.5:1, or #933E10 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eb834c?

#4CB4EB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #4CEBD3 and #4C64EB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eb834c?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCFC0 for borders, #9B664B for secondary text, #10ABBC as an accent and #73300D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EB4C64 and #EBD34C stays calm, while #4CB4EB is the loudest partner.

What is #eb834c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 44%, 68%, 8%). 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 #eb834c warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 5 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EE9963; nudged cooler, #ED4A4D.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eb834c?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 6.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eb834c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eb834c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eb834c] or text-[#eb834c], 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 #eb834c with 50% opacity?

rgba(235, 131, 76, 0.5), or #eb834c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F5C1A6; over black, #764226.

Is #eb834c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9933, ΔE2000 10.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eb834c 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 #eb834c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F1A983, #eb834c 45%, #73300D). For more colour, a short hue run to #D6E831 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eb834c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eb834c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.