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#ebaf9b

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

Token name suggestion: Meadow Marmalade

RGB
235, 175, 155
HSL
15°, 67%, 77%
CMYK
0, 26, 34, 8
Luminance
0.5069

#ebaf9b is a light vivid orange, 15° on the wheel and 8/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.14:1). As text it scores 1.89:1 on white — use #C64F27 instead. Nearest name is Dark Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(15 67% 77%)rgb(235 175 155)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ebaf9b is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ebaf9b
Hue
15°
orange
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
77%
light
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5069
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
8/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.14:1
Closest name
Dark Salmon
ΔE2000 7.1
Chroma
26.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.805
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 19.7
Web-safe
#FF9999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue15° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness77%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ebaf9b.

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
Red35%
Green60%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#ebaf9b
HEX (8-digit)#ebaf9bff
RGBrgb(235, 175, 155)
RGBArgba(235, 175, 155, 1)
HSLhsl(15, 67%, 77%)
HSV / HSBhsv(15, 34%, 92%)
HWBhwb(15 61% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 26%, 34%, 8%)
LABlab(76.5 19.3 18.8)
LCHlch(76.5 26.9 44.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.805 0.076 39.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(55.51, 50.69, 37.86)
Decimal15445915
Display P3color(display-p3 0.922 0.686 0.608)
Web-safe#FF9999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ebaf9b;
background-color: #ebaf9b;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ebaf9b;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ebaf9b] bg-[#ebaf9b]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ebaf9b;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.922, green: 0.686, blue: 0.608)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.922, green: 0.686, blue: 0.608, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EBAF9B</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEBAF9B)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEBAF9B)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(155, 175, 235)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(235, 175, 155)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(235, 175, 155)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 235, 175, 155)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9216f, 0.6863f, 0.6078f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{235,175,155}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ebaf9b 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ebaf9b 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6A2A15, #EEDAD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ebaf9b 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: #FBF5F3;
  --brand-100: #F8ECE8;
  --brand-200: #F1D4CA;
  --brand-300: #ebaf9b;
  --brand-400: #E38F73;
  --brand-500: #DA6944;
  --brand-600: #CC5229;
  --brand-700: #AA4422;
  --brand-800: #88361B;
  --brand-900: #632A18;
  --brand-950: #3E1B0F;
  --brand: #ebaf9b;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCBC0;
  --brand-hover: #E5977D;
  --brand-pressed: #DF7F60;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241814;
    --brand-ink: #EEDAD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF5F3',
        100: '#F8ECE8',
        200: '#F1D4CA',
        300: '#ebaf9b',
        400: '#E38F73',
        500: '#DA6944',
        600: '#CC5229',
        700: '#AA4422',
        800: '#88361B',
        900: '#632A18',
        950: '#3E1B0F',
        DEFAULT: '#ebaf9b',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF5F3,
  '100': #F8ECE8,
  '200': #F1D4CA,
  '300': #ebaf9b,
  '400': #E38F73,
  '500': #DA6944,
  '600': #CC5229,
  '700': #AA4422,
  '800': #88361B,
  '900': #632A18,
  '950': #3E1B0F,
);
$brand-base: #ebaf9b;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF5F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8ECE8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F1D4CA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ebaf9b", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E38F73", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DA6944", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#CC5229", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AA4422", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#88361B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#632A18", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E1B0F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ebaf9b · 11.14:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.89:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.14:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ebaf9b as text scores 1.89:1 on white and 11.14:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6A2A15 at 5.70:1.

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
#C64F27 · 4.62:1
AA on white−30% L
#C64F27
The quick fox
#973C1E · 7.04:1
AAA on white−41% L
#973C1E
The quick fox
#ebaf9b · 11.14:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ebaf9b
The quick fox
#ebaf9b · 11.14:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ebaf9b

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DD7957 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
#ebaf9b on white: 1.89:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ebaf9b on black: 11.14:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ebaf9b as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ebaf9b.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.89:1AaAa
Slate 501.80:1AaAa
Slate 1001.72:1AaAa
Slate 2001.53:1AaAa
Slate 3001.27:1AaAa
Slate 4001.36:1AaAa
Slate 5002.52:1AaAa
Slate 6004.02:1AaAa
Slate 7005.49:1AaAa
Slate 8007.76:1AaAa
Slate 9009.47:1AaAa
Black11.14:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BDB59A
deuteranopia · #CBC29B
tritanopia · #F9A6AA

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. #ebaf9b 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.

#FBF5F3
#F8ECE8
#F1D4CA
#ebaf9b
#E38F73
#DA6944
#CC5229
#AA4422
#88361B
#632A18
#3E1B0F
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FBF5F3Darkest = 950 · #3E1B0FText 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 0.019 39.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.030 39.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.046 39.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.059 39.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.070 39.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.076 39.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.076 39.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.072 39.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.064 39.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.053 39.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.042 39.2);
}

Colors that work with #ebaf9b

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#EDCBC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B5F4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1FADAD
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6A2A15
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBEEEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241814
Dark-mode background
Hover#E5977D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DF7F60
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F3BAA7
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 #ebaf9b

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 #6A2A15
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #DD7957

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
  • Weight24/100
  • 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#9BD7EB
Analogous left#EB9BAF
Analogous right#EBD79B
Split-complement 1#9BEBD7
Split-complement 2#9BAFEB
Triadic 1#9BEBAF
Triadic 2#AF9BEB
Tetradic#AFEB9B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°15°

#ebaf9b sits at 15°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.2%
Green68.6%
Blue60.8%
R · 0–255
235
0xeb
G · 0–255
175
0xaf
B · 0–255
155
0x9b

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta25.5%
Yellow34.0%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 67%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ebaf9b text on a black background

contrast 11.14:1

Card sample

#ebaf9b text on a white background

contrast 1.89:1

Card sample

#ebaf9b on grey

1.72:1

#ebaf9b on its own surface

1.76:1

#ebaf9b on its dark surface

9.16:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ebaf9b;
Background color
Panel with #ebaf9b background
background-color: #ebaf9b;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ebaf9b;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(235, 175, 155, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(235, 175, 155, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ebaf9b;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ebaf9b, #EBE49B);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ebaf9b, #DEEB9B);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ebaf9b;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ebaf9b;
caret-color: #ebaf9b;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ebaf9b;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBEEEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ebaf9b;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ebaf9b 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ebaf9b 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, 155, 0.5)
rgb(235 175 155 / 50%)
#ebaf9b80
hsl(15 67% 77% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ebaf9b 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ebaf9b1a#FDF7F5
20%#ebaf9b33#FBEFEB
40%#ebaf9b66#F7DFD7
60%#ebaf9b99#F3CFC3
80%#ebaf9bcc#EFBFAF

Gradients from #ebaf9b

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, #F5D8CE, #ebaf9b 45%, #6A2A15);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ebaf9b, #E6E682);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ebaf9b, #9BD7EB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FAECE8 0%, #ebaf9b 45%, #6A2A15 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%, #F4C6D5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F0E6B5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6A2A15 0%, transparent 65%), #ebaf9b;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ebaf9b

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.

#ebaf9b 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 11.14:1.

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.

#ebaf9b, answered

What color is #ebaf9b?

#ebaf9b is a light vivid orange, closest to Dark Salmon (ΔE2000 7.1). It sits at 15° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 77% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #ebaf9b?

rgb(235, 175, 155) — 235 red, 175 green and 155 blue out of 255, or 92.2% / 68.6% / 60.8% by channel.

What is #ebaf9b in HSL and HSV?

hsl(15, 67%, 77%) and hsv(15, 34%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ebaf9b a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5069 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 11.14:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ebaf9b?

Black. It scores 11.14:1 against #ebaf9b, versus 1.89:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ebaf9b accessible on a white background?

#ebaf9b on white scores 1.89:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C64F27 to reach 4.5:1, or #973C1E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ebaf9b?

#9BD7EB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9BEBD7 and #9BAFEB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ebaf9b?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCBC0 for borders, #9B5F4B for secondary text, #1FADAD as an accent and #6A2A15 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EB9BAF and #EBD79B stays calm, while #9BD7EB is the loudest partner.

What is #ebaf9b in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 26%, 34%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ebaf9b 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 #EBB99B; nudged cooler, #EC9AA4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ebaf9b?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 19.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ebaf9b as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ebaf9b in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ebaf9b] or text-[#ebaf9b], 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 #ebaf9b with 50% opacity?

rgba(235, 175, 155, 0.5), or #ebaf9b80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F5D7CD; over black, #76584E.

Is #ebaf9b a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9999, ΔE2000 10.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ebaf9b 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 #ebaf9b?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F5D8CE, #ebaf9b 45%, #6A2A15). For more colour, a short hue run to #E6E682 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ebaf9b in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ebaf9b at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.