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#f5af84

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Marmalade

RGB
245, 175, 132
HSL
23°, 85%, 74%
CMYK
0, 29, 46, 4
Luminance
0.5174

#f5af84 is a light electric orange, 23° on the wheel and 4/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.35:1). As text it scores 1.85:1 on white — use #C15310 instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is amber.

hsl(23 85% 74%)rgb(245 175 132)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f5af84 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f5af84
Hue
23°
orange
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
74%
light
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5174
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
4/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.35:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 6.1
Chroma
38.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.810
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
amber
500 · ΔE 15.2
Web-safe
#FF9999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue23° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness74%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f5af84.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool4% 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
Red38%
Green59%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#f5af84
HEX (8-digit)#f5af84ff
RGBrgb(245, 175, 132)
RGBArgba(245, 175, 132, 1)
HSLhsl(23, 85%, 74%)
HSV / HSBhsv(23, 46%, 96%)
HWBhwb(23 52% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 29%, 46%, 4%)
LABlab(77.1 20.6 32.2)
LCHlch(77.1 38.2 57.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.810 0.100 52.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(57.15, 51.74, 28.80)
Decimal16101252
Display P3color(display-p3 0.961 0.686 0.518)
Web-safe#FF9999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f5af84;
background-color: #f5af84;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f5af84;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f5af84] bg-[#f5af84]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f5af84;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.961, green: 0.686, blue: 0.518)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.961, green: 0.686, blue: 0.518, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F5AF84</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF5AF84)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF5AF84)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(132, 175, 245)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(245, 175, 132)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(245, 175, 132)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 245, 175, 132)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9608f, 0.6863f, 0.5176f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{245,175,132}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f5af84 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f5af84 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#76330A, #EEDDD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f5af84 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: #FCF6F2;
  --brand-100: #FAEDE5;
  --brand-200: #F7D8C5;
  --brand-300: #f5af84;
  --brand-400: #F29A63;
  --brand-500: #EE782F;
  --brand-600: #E26112;
  --brand-700: #BD510F;
  --brand-800: #97410C;
  --brand-900: #6D320D;
  --brand-950: #441F08;
  --brand: #f5af84;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD1C0;
  --brand-hover: #F29963;
  --brand-pressed: #F08442;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EEDDD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF6F2',
        100: '#FAEDE5',
        200: '#F7D8C5',
        300: '#f5af84',
        400: '#F29A63',
        500: '#EE782F',
        600: '#E26112',
        700: '#BD510F',
        800: '#97410C',
        900: '#6D320D',
        950: '#441F08',
        DEFAULT: '#f5af84',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF6F2,
  '100': #FAEDE5,
  '200': #F7D8C5,
  '300': #f5af84,
  '400': #F29A63,
  '500': #EE782F,
  '600': #E26112,
  '700': #BD510F,
  '800': #97410C,
  '900': #6D320D,
  '950': #441F08,
);
$brand-base: #f5af84;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF6F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FAEDE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F7D8C5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#f5af84", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F29A63", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#EE782F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#E26112", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#BD510F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#97410C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6D320D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#441F08", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f5af84 · 11.35:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.85:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.35:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f5af84 as text scores 1.85:1 on white and 11.35:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #76330A at 5.05:1.

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
#C15310 · 4.65:1
AA on white−33% L
#C15310
The quick fox
#923F0C · 7.15:1
AAA on white−43% L
#923F0C
The quick fox
#f5af84 · 11.35:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f5af84
The quick fox
#f5af84 · 11.35:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f5af84

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #ED7126 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
#f5af84 on white: 1.85:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f5af84 on black: 11.35:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f5af84 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f5af84.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.85:1AaAa
Slate 501.77:1AaAa
Slate 1001.69:1AaAa
Slate 2001.50:1AaAa
Slate 3001.25:1AaAa
Slate 4001.39:1AaAa
Slate 5002.57:1AaAa
Slate 6004.09:1AaAa
Slate 7005.60:1AaAa
Slate 8007.90:1AaAa
Slate 9009.65:1AaAa
Black11.35:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C3B581
deuteranopia · #D3C484
tritanopia · #FFA2A4

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. #f5af84 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.

#FCF6F2
#FAEDE5
#F7D8C5
#f5af84
#F29A63
#EE782F
#E26112
#BD510F
#97410C
#6D320D
#441F08
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FCF6F2Darkest = 950 · #441F08Text 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 0.025 52.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 52.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.060 52.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.078 52.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.092 52.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.100 52.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.100 52.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.094 52.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.084 52.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.070 52.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.055 52.4);
}

Colors that work with #f5af84

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#FAF7F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDD1C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B694B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0BA9C1
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#76330A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FDF0E7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#F29963
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F08442
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FCBA91
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #f5af84

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 #76330A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #ED7126

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • 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#84CAF5
Analogous left#F58491
Analogous right#F5E784
Split-complement 1#84F5E7
Split-complement 2#8491F5
Triadic 1#84F5AF
Triadic 2#AF84F5
Tetradic#91F584
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°23°

#f5af84 sits at 23°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.1%
Green68.6%
Blue51.8%
R · 0–255
245
0xf5
G · 0–255
175
0xaf
B · 0–255
132
0x84

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta28.6%
Yellow46.1%
Key (black)3.9%

Total ink coverage is 79%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f5af84 text on a black background

contrast 11.35:1

Card sample

#f5af84 text on a white background

contrast 1.85:1

Card sample

#f5af84 on grey

1.69:1

#f5af84 on its own surface

1.73:1

#f5af84 on its dark surface

9.20:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f5af84;
Background color
Panel with #f5af84 background
background-color: #f5af84;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f5af84;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(245, 175, 132, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(245, 175, 132, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f5af84;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f5af84, #F0F584);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f5af84, #D3F584);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f5af84;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f5af84;
caret-color: #f5af84;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f5af84;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FDF0E7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f5af84;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f5af84 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f5af84 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(245, 175, 132, 0.5)
rgb(245 175 132 / 50%)
#f5af8480
hsl(23 85% 74% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f5af84 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f5af841a#FEF7F3
20%#f5af8433#FDEFE6
40%#f5af8466#FBDFCE
60%#f5af8499#F9CFB5
80%#f5af84cc#F7BF9D

Gradients from #f5af84

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, #FAD4BC, #f5af84 45%, #76330A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f5af84, #E1F368);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f5af84, #84CAF5);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCE6D9 0%, #f5af84 45%, #76330A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F9B3C1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F7F4A0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #76330A 0%, transparent 65%), #f5af84;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f5af84

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.

#f5af84 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

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 11.35:1.

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.

#f5af84, answered

What color is #f5af84?

#f5af84 is a light electric orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 6.1). It sits at 23° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 74% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f5af84?

rgb(245, 175, 132) — 245 red, 175 green and 132 blue out of 255, or 96.1% / 68.6% / 51.8% by channel.

What is #f5af84 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(23, 85%, 74%) and hsv(23, 46%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f5af84 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5174 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 11.35:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f5af84?

Black. It scores 11.35:1 against #f5af84, versus 1.85:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f5af84 accessible on a white background?

#f5af84 on white scores 1.85:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C15310 to reach 4.5:1, or #923F0C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f5af84?

#84CAF5 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #84F5E7 and #8491F5, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f5af84?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #EDD1C0 for borders, #9B694B for secondary text, #0BA9C1 as an accent and #76330A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F58491 and #F5E784 stays calm, while #84CAF5 is the loudest partner.

What is #f5af84 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 29%, 46%, 4%). 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 #f5af84 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 4 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F7C19B; nudged cooler, #F68483.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f5af84?

The amber family — its 500 step is #f59e0b, ΔE2000 15.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f5af84 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f5af84 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f5af84] or text-[#f5af84], 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 #f5af84 with 50% opacity?

rgba(245, 175, 132, 0.5), or #f5af8480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FAD7C2; over black, #7B5842.

Is #f5af84 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9999, ΔE2000 16.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f5af84 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 #f5af84?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FAD4BC, #f5af84 45%, #76330A). For more colour, a short hue run to #E1F368 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f5af84 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f5af84 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.