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#ebaf8f

a light, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Light Salmon

Token name suggestion: Meadow Marmalade

RGB
235, 175, 143
HSL
21°, 70%, 74%
CMYK
0, 26, 39, 8
Luminance
0.5031

#ebaf8f is a light vivid orange, 21° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.06:1). As text it scores 1.90:1 on white — use #BF5922 instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(21 70% 74%)rgb(235 175 143)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ebaf8f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ebaf8f
Hue
21°
orange
Saturation
70%
vivid
Lightness
74%
light
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
75%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5031
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.06:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 6.8
Chroma
30.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.802
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 17.5
Web-safe
#FF9999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue21° of 360°
Saturation70%
Lightness74%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ebaf8f.

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
Red35%
Green61%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#ebaf8f
HEX (8-digit)#ebaf8fff
RGBrgb(235, 175, 143)
RGBArgba(235, 175, 143, 1)
HSLhsl(21, 70%, 74%)
HSV / HSBhsv(21, 39%, 92%)
HWBhwb(21 56% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 26%, 39%, 8%)
LABlab(76.3 17.9 25.0)
LCHlch(76.3 30.7 54.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.802 0.083 49.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(54.55, 50.31, 32.82)
Decimal15445903
Display P3color(display-p3 0.922 0.686 0.561)
Web-safe#FF9999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ebaf8f;
background-color: #ebaf8f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ebaf8f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ebaf8f] bg-[#ebaf8f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ebaf8f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.922, green: 0.686, blue: 0.561)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.922, green: 0.686, blue: 0.561, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EBAF8F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEBAF8F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEBAF8F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(143, 175, 235)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(235, 175, 143)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(235, 175, 143)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 235, 175, 143)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9216f, 0.6863f, 0.5608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{235,175,143}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ebaf8f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ebaf8f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6C3213, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ebaf8f 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: #F8EDE7;
  --brand-200: #F2D8CA;
  --brand-300: #ebaf8f;
  --brand-400: #E69970;
  --brand-500: #DD7741;
  --brand-600: #D06125;
  --brand-700: #AD501F;
  --brand-800: #8A4019;
  --brand-900: #643116;
  --brand-950: #3F1F0E;
  --brand: #ebaf8f;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCFC0;
  --brand-hover: #E69971;
  --brand-pressed: #E08452;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF6F3',
        100: '#F8EDE7',
        200: '#F2D8CA',
        300: '#ebaf8f',
        400: '#E69970',
        500: '#DD7741',
        600: '#D06125',
        700: '#AD501F',
        800: '#8A4019',
        900: '#643116',
        950: '#3F1F0E',
        DEFAULT: '#ebaf8f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF6F3,
  '100': #F8EDE7,
  '200': #F2D8CA,
  '300': #ebaf8f,
  '400': #E69970,
  '500': #DD7741,
  '600': #D06125,
  '700': #AD501F,
  '800': #8A4019,
  '900': #643116,
  '950': #3F1F0E,
);
$brand-base: #ebaf8f;
$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": "#F8EDE7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F2D8CA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ebaf8f", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E69970", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DD7741", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D06125", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AD501F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#8A4019", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#643116", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3F1F0E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ebaf8f · 11.06:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.90:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.06:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ebaf8f as text scores 1.90:1 on white and 11.06:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6C3213 at 5.26:1.

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
#BF5922 · 4.50:1
AA on white−30% L
#BF5922
The quick fox
#8F431A · 7.03:1
AAA on white−41% L
#8F431A
The quick fox
#ebaf8f · 11.06:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ebaf8f
The quick fox
#ebaf8f · 11.06:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ebaf8f

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DE7A45 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
#ebaf8f on white: 1.90:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ebaf8f on black: 11.06:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ebaf8f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ebaf8f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.90:1AaAa
Slate 501.81:1AaAa
Slate 1001.73:1AaAa
Slate 2001.54:1AaAa
Slate 3001.28:1AaAa
Slate 4001.35:1AaAa
Slate 5002.51:1AaAa
Slate 6003.99:1AaAa
Slate 7005.45:1AaAa
Slate 8007.71:1AaAa
Slate 9009.40:1AaAa
Black11.06:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BFB58D
deuteranopia · #CDC18F
tritanopia · #FBA5A6

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. #ebaf8f 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.

#FCF6F3
#F8EDE7
#F2D8CA
#ebaf8f
#E69970
#DD7741
#D06125
#AD501F
#8A4019
#643116
#3F1F0E
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FCF6F3Darkest = 950 · #3F1F0EText 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 0.021 49.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.033 49.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.050 49.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.065 49.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.076 49.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.083 49.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.083 49.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.078 49.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.070 49.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.058 49.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.046 49.2);
}

Colors that work with #ebaf8f

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#9B674B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1AA2B2
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6C3213
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBF0E9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#E69971
One step down in lightness
Pressed#E08452
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F4BA9B
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 #ebaf8f

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #6C3213
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #DE7A45

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 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-high
  • Weight26/100
  • 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#8FCBEB
Analogous left#EB8F9D
Analogous right#EBDD8F
Split-complement 1#8FEBDD
Split-complement 2#8F9DEB
Triadic 1#8FEBAF
Triadic 2#AF8FEB
Tetradic#9DEB8F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°21°

#ebaf8f sits at 21°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.2%
Green68.6%
Blue56.1%
R · 0–255
235
0xeb
G · 0–255
175
0xaf
B · 0–255
143
0x8f

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta25.5%
Yellow39.1%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 72%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ebaf8f text on a black background

contrast 11.06:1

Card sample

#ebaf8f text on a white background

contrast 1.90:1

Card sample

#ebaf8f on grey

1.73:1

#ebaf8f on its own surface

1.77:1

#ebaf8f on its dark surface

9.04:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ebaf8f;
Background color
Panel with #ebaf8f background
background-color: #ebaf8f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ebaf8f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(235, 175, 143, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(235, 175, 143, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ebaf8f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ebaf8f, #EAEB8F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ebaf8f, #D3EB8F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ebaf8f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ebaf8f;
caret-color: #ebaf8f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ebaf8f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBF0E9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ebaf8f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ebaf8f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ebaf8f 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, 175, 143, 0.5)
rgb(235 175 143 / 50%)
#ebaf8f80
hsl(21 70% 74% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ebaf8f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ebaf8f1a#FDF7F4
20%#ebaf8f33#FBEFE9
40%#ebaf8f66#F7DFD2
60%#ebaf8f99#F3CFBC
80%#ebaf8fcc#EFBFA5

Gradients from #ebaf8f

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, #F4D4C3, #ebaf8f 45%, #6C3213);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ebaf8f, #DBE675);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ebaf8f, #8FCBEB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9E7DD 0%, #ebaf8f 45%, #6C3213 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%, #F3BAC7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F0EBA9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6C3213 0%, transparent 65%), #ebaf8f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ebaf8f

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.

#ebaf8f 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 11.06:1.

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.

#ebaf8f, answered

What color is #ebaf8f?

#ebaf8f is a light vivid orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 6.8). It sits at 21° on the hue wheel with 70% saturation and 74% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #ebaf8f?

rgb(235, 175, 143) — 235 red, 175 green and 143 blue out of 255, or 92.2% / 68.6% / 56.1% by channel.

What is #ebaf8f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(21, 70%, 74%) and hsv(21, 39%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ebaf8f a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5031 and perceived brightness is 75%, so black text on it reaches 11.06:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ebaf8f?

Black. It scores 11.06:1 against #ebaf8f, versus 1.90:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ebaf8f accessible on a white background?

#ebaf8f on white scores 1.90:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #BF5922 to reach 4.5:1, or #8F431A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ebaf8f?

#8FCBEB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #8FEBDD and #8F9DEB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ebaf8f?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCFC0 for borders, #9B674B for secondary text, #1AA2B2 as an accent and #6C3213 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EB8F9D and #EBDD8F stays calm, while #8FCBEB is the loudest partner.

What is #ebaf8f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 26%, 39%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ebaf8f 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 #EFC2A5; nudged cooler, #EC8E8F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ebaf8f?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 17.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ebaf8f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ebaf8f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ebaf8f] or text-[#ebaf8f], 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 #ebaf8f with 50% opacity?

rgba(235, 175, 143, 0.5), or #ebaf8f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F5D7C7; over black, #765848.

Is #ebaf8f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9999, ΔE2000 14.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ebaf8f 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 #ebaf8f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4D4C3, #ebaf8f 45%, #6C3213). For more colour, a short hue run to #DBE675 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ebaf8f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ebaf8f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.