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#eccca2

a light, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Navajo White

Token name suggestion: Drift Apricot

RGB
236, 204, 162
HSL
34°, 66%, 78%
CMYK
0, 14, 31, 8
Luminance
0.6363

#eccca2 is a light vivid orange, 34° on the wheel and 3/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.73:1). As text it scores 1.53:1 on white — use #A16A21 instead. Nearest name is Navajo White, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(34 66% 78%)rgb(236 204 162)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eccca2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eccca2
Hue
34°
orange
Saturation
66%
vivid
Lightness
78%
light
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6363
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
3/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.73:1
Closest name
Navajo White
ΔE2000 4.4
Chroma
25.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.862
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 16.9
Web-safe
#FFCC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue34° of 360°
Saturation66%
Lightness78%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eccca2.

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
Red28%
Green68%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#eccca2
HEX (8-digit)#eccca2ff
RGBrgb(236, 204, 162)
RGBArgba(236, 204, 162, 1)
HSLhsl(34, 66%, 78%)
HSV / HSBhsv(34, 31%, 93%)
HWBhwb(34 64% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 14%, 31%, 8%)
LABlab(83.8 5.2 25.1)
LCHlch(83.8 25.6 78.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.862 0.066 74.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(62.71, 63.63, 43.15)
Decimal15518882
Display P3color(display-p3 0.925 0.800 0.635)
Web-safe#FFCC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eccca2;
background-color: #eccca2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eccca2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eccca2] bg-[#eccca2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eccca2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.925, green: 0.800, blue: 0.635)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.925, green: 0.800, blue: 0.635, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ECCCA2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFECCCA2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFECCCA2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(162, 204, 236)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(236, 204, 162)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(236, 204, 162)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 236, 204, 162)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9255f, 0.8000f, 0.6353f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{236,204,162}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eccca2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eccca2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6A4616, #EEE2D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eccca2 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: #FBF8F3;
  --brand-100: #F8F1E8;
  --brand-200: #F1E0CB;
  --brand-300: #eccca2;
  --brand-400: #E2B273;
  --brand-500: #D99945;
  --brand-600: #CB8529;
  --brand-700: #A96F23;
  --brand-800: #88591C;
  --brand-900: #624218;
  --brand-950: #3E290F;
  --brand: #eccca2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD9C0;
  --brand-hover: #E6BC84;
  --brand-pressed: #E0AB67;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241D14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE2D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF8F3',
        100: '#F8F1E8',
        200: '#F1E0CB',
        300: '#eccca2',
        400: '#E2B273',
        500: '#D99945',
        600: '#CB8529',
        700: '#A96F23',
        800: '#88591C',
        900: '#624218',
        950: '#3E290F',
        DEFAULT: '#eccca2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF8F3,
  '100': #F8F1E8,
  '200': #F1E0CB,
  '300': #eccca2,
  '400': #E2B273,
  '500': #D99945,
  '600': #CB8529,
  '700': #A96F23,
  '800': #88591C,
  '900': #624218,
  '950': #3E290F,
);
$brand-base: #eccca2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF8F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8F1E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F1E0CB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#eccca2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E2B273", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D99945", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#CB8529", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A96F23", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#88591C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#624218", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E290F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #eccca2 · 13.73:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.53:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.73:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eccca2 as text scores 1.53:1 on white and 13.73:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6A4616 at 5.49:1.

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
#A16A21 · 4.57:1
AA on white−40% L
#A16A21
The quick fox
#774E18 · 7.27:1
AAA on white−50% L
#774E18
The quick fox
#eccca2 · 13.73:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eccca2
The quick fox
#eccca2 · 13.73:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eccca2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #CB8529 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
#eccca2 on white: 1.53:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eccca2 on black: 13.73:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eccca2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eccca2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.53:1AaAa
Slate 501.46:1AaAa
Slate 1001.40:1AaAa
Slate 2001.24:1AaAa
Slate 3001.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.68:1AaAa
Slate 5003.11:1AaAa
Slate 6004.95:1AaAa
Slate 7006.77:1AaAa
Slate 8009.56:1AaAa
Slate 90011.67:1AaAa
Black13.73:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D8CC9F
deuteranopia · #E0D4A3
tritanopia · #F8C4C1

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. #eccca2 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.

#FBF8F3
#F8F1E8
#F1E0CB
#eccca2
#E2B273
#D99945
#CB8529
#A96F23
#88591C
#624218
#3E290F
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FBF8F3Darkest = 950 · #3E290FText step on white = 800
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 0.017 74.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.026 74.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.040 74.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.051 74.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.061 74.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.066 74.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.066 74.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.062 74.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.055 74.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.046 74.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.036 74.3);
}

Colors that work with #eccca2

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#FAF8F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDD9C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B784B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1F80AD
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6A4616
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBF3EA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241D14
Dark-mode background
Hover#E6BC84
One step down in lightness
Pressed#E0AB67
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F4D6AE
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 #eccca2

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 #6A4616
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #CB8529

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
  • 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#A2C2EC
Analogous left#ECA7A2
Analogous right#E7ECA2
Split-complement 1#A2E7EC
Split-complement 2#A7A2EC
Triadic 1#A2ECCC
Triadic 2#CCA2EC
Tetradic#A2ECA7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°34°

#eccca2 sits at 34°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.5%
Green80.0%
Blue63.5%
R · 0–255
236
0xec
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
162
0xa2

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta13.6%
Yellow31.4%
Key (black)7.5%

Total ink coverage is 53%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eccca2 text on a black background

contrast 13.73:1

Card sample

#eccca2 text on a white background

contrast 1.53:1

Card sample

#eccca2 on grey

1.40:1

#eccca2 on its own surface

1.44:1

#eccca2 on its dark surface

10.89:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eccca2;
Background color
Panel with #eccca2 background
background-color: #eccca2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eccca2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(236, 204, 162, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(236, 204, 162, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eccca2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eccca2, #DBECA2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eccca2, #C8ECA2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eccca2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eccca2;
caret-color: #eccca2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eccca2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBF3EA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eccca2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eccca2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eccca2 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(236, 204, 162, 0.5)
rgb(236 204 162 / 50%)
#eccca280
hsl(34 66% 78% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eccca2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eccca21a#FDFAF6
20%#eccca233#FBF5EC
40%#eccca266#F7EBDA
60%#eccca299#F4E0C7
80%#eccca2cc#F0D6B5

Gradients from #eccca2

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, #F6E8D5, #eccca2 45%, #6A4616);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eccca2, #C9E788);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eccca2, #A2C2EC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCF6EE 0%, #eccca2 45%, #6A4616 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF8F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F5CCCD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E9F1BB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6A4616 0%, transparent 65%), #eccca2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eccca2

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.

#eccca2 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 13.73:1.

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.

#eccca2, answered

What color is #eccca2?

#eccca2 is a light vivid orange, closest to Navajo White (ΔE2000 4.4). It sits at 34° on the hue wheel with 66% saturation and 78% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #eccca2?

rgb(236, 204, 162) — 236 red, 204 green and 162 blue out of 255, or 92.5% / 80% / 63.5% by channel.

What is #eccca2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(34, 66%, 78%) and hsv(34, 31%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eccca2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6363 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 13.73:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eccca2?

Black. It scores 13.73:1 against #eccca2, versus 1.53:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eccca2 accessible on a white background?

#eccca2 on white scores 1.53:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #A16A21 to reach 4.5:1, or #774E18 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eccca2?

#A2C2EC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A2E7EC and #A7A2EC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eccca2?

For interface work: #FAF8F4 as the surface, #EDD9C0 for borders, #9B784B for secondary text, #1F80AD as an accent and #6A4616 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #ECA7A2 and #E7ECA2 stays calm, while #A2C2EC is the loudest partner.

What is #eccca2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 14%, 31%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #eccca2 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 #ECC4A2; nudged cooler, #EDE8A1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eccca2?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 16.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eccca2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eccca2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eccca2] or text-[#eccca2], 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 #eccca2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(236, 204, 162, 0.5), or #eccca280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F6E6D1; over black, #766651.

Is #eccca2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCC99, ΔE2000 5.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eccca2 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 #eccca2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F6E8D5, #eccca2 45%, #6A4616). For more colour, a short hue run to #C9E788 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eccca2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eccca2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.