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#f7e2cc

a pale, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Antique White

Token name suggestion: Whisper Clay

RGB
247, 226, 204
HSL
31°, 73%, 88%
CMYK
0, 9, 17, 3
Luminance
0.7853

#f7e2cc is a pale vivid orange, 31° on the wheel and 1/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.71:1). As text it scores 1.26:1 on white — use #A9641B instead. Nearest name is Antique White, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(31 73% 88%)rgb(247 226 204)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f7e2cc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f7e2cc
Hue
31°
orange
Saturation
73%
vivid
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7853
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
1/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.71:1
Closest name
Antique White
ΔE2000 2.9
Chroma
13.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.924
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 23.6
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue31° of 360°
Saturation73%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f7e2cc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool1% 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
Red25%
Green69%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#f7e2cc
HEX (8-digit)#f7e2ccff
RGBrgb(247, 226, 204)
RGBArgba(247, 226, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(31, 73%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(31, 17%, 97%)
HWBhwb(31 80% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 9%, 17%, 3%)
LABlab(91.0 3.7 13.4)
LCHlch(91.0 13.9 74.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.924 0.037 68.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(76.45, 78.53, 68.25)
Decimal16245452
Display P3color(display-p3 0.969 0.886 0.800)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f7e2cc;
background-color: #f7e2cc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f7e2cc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f7e2cc] bg-[#f7e2cc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f7e2cc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.969, green: 0.886, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.969, green: 0.886, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F7E2CC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF7E2CC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF7E2CC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 226, 247)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(247, 226, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(247, 226, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 247, 226, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9686f, 0.8863f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{247,226,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f7e2cc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f7e2cc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6E4111, #EEE1D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f7e2cc 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: #FCF7F3;
  --brand-100: #F8F0E7;
  --brand-200: #f7e2cc;
  --brand-300: #F0C89E;
  --brand-400: #E8AC6E;
  --brand-500: #E1913D;
  --brand-600: #D47C21;
  --brand-700: #B0681C;
  --brand-800: #8D5316;
  --brand-900: #663E14;
  --brand-950: #40270D;
  --brand: #f7e2cc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD7C0;
  --brand-hover: #F2D0AD;
  --brand-pressed: #EDBF8E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241C14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE1D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF7F3',
        100: '#F8F0E7',
        200: '#f7e2cc',
        300: '#F0C89E',
        400: '#E8AC6E',
        500: '#E1913D',
        600: '#D47C21',
        700: '#B0681C',
        800: '#8D5316',
        900: '#663E14',
        950: '#40270D',
        DEFAULT: '#f7e2cc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF7F3,
  '100': #F8F0E7,
  '200': #f7e2cc,
  '300': #F0C89E,
  '400': #E8AC6E,
  '500': #E1913D,
  '600': #D47C21,
  '700': #B0681C,
  '800': #8D5316,
  '900': #663E14,
  '950': #40270D,
);
$brand-base: #f7e2cc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF7F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8F0E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#f7e2cc", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F0C89E", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E8AC6E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E1913D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D47C21", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B0681C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#8D5316", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#663E14", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#40270D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f7e2cc · 16.71:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.26:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.71:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f7e2cc as text scores 1.26:1 on white and 16.71:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6E4111 at 6.88:1.

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
#A9641B · 4.64:1
AA on white−50% L
#A9641B
The quick fox
#824C14 · 7.02:1
AAA on white−59% L
#824C14
The quick fox
#f7e2cc · 16.71:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f7e2cc
The quick fox
#f7e2cc · 16.71:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f7e2cc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #D57E21 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
#f7e2cc on white: 1.26:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f7e2cc on black: 16.71:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f7e2cc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f7e2cc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.26:1AaAa
Slate 501.20:1AaAa
Slate 1001.15:1AaAa
Slate 2001.02:1AaAa
Slate 3001.18:1AaAa
Slate 4002.04:1AaAa
Slate 5003.79:1AaAa
Slate 6006.03:1AaAa
Slate 7008.24:1AaAa
Slate 80011.64:1AaAa
Slate 90014.20:1AaAa
Black16.71:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E9E3CB
deuteranopia · #EEE7CC
tritanopia · #FFDDDC

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. #f7e2cc is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FCF7F3
#F8F0E7
#f7e2cc
#F0C89E
#E8AC6E
#E1913D
#D47C21
#B0681C
#8D5316
#663E14
#40270D
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FCF7F3Darkest = 950 · #40270DText 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 0.009 68.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.015 68.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.022 68.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.029 68.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.034 68.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.037 68.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.037 68.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.035 68.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.031 68.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.026 68.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.021 68.6);
}

Colors that work with #f7e2cc

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#EDD7C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B744B
Captions on the surface
Accent#188AB4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6E4111
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCF2E9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241C14
Dark-mode background
Hover#F2D0AD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EDBF8E
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FCEBDA
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 #f7e2cc

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 #6E4111
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #D57E21

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

Hard to make feel premium, and it collides with the "caution" band in status systems.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#CCE1F7
Analogous left#F7CCCC
Analogous right#F6F7CC
Split-complement 1#CCF6F7
Split-complement 2#CCCCF7
Triadic 1#CCF7E2
Triadic 2#E2CCF7
Tetradic#CCF7CC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°31°

#f7e2cc sits at 31°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.9%
Green88.6%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
247
0xf7
G · 0–255
226
0xe2
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta8.5%
Yellow17.4%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 29%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f7e2cc text on a black background

contrast 16.71:1

Card sample

#f7e2cc text on a white background

contrast 1.26:1

Card sample

#f7e2cc on grey

1.15:1

#f7e2cc on its own surface

1.18:1

#f7e2cc on its dark surface

13.35:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f7e2cc;
Background color
Panel with #f7e2cc background
background-color: #f7e2cc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f7e2cc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(247, 226, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(247, 226, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f7e2cc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f7e2cc, #EFF7CC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7e2cc, #E5F7CC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f7e2cc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f7e2cc;
caret-color: #f7e2cc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f7e2cc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCF2E9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f7e2cc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f7e2cc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f7e2cc 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(247, 226, 204, 0.5)
rgb(247 226 204 / 50%)
#f7e2cc80
hsl(31 73% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f7e2cc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f7e2cc1a#FEFCFA
20%#f7e2cc33#FDF9F5
40%#f7e2cc66#FCF3EB
60%#f7e2cc99#FAEEE0
80%#f7e2cccc#F9E8D6

Gradients from #f7e2cc

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, #FCF5ED, #f7e2cc 45%, #6E4111);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f7e2cc, #E2F3B1);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7e2cc, #CCE1F7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FDF7F2 0%, #f7e2cc 45%, #6E4111 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%, #FEF8F8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F9FBE6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6E4111 0%, transparent 65%), #f7e2cc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f7e2cc

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.

#f7e2cc 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 16.71:1.

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.

#f7e2cc, answered

What color is #f7e2cc?

#f7e2cc is a pale vivid orange, closest to Antique White (ΔE2000 2.9). It sits at 31° on the hue wheel with 73% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f7e2cc?

rgb(247, 226, 204) — 247 red, 226 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 96.9% / 88.6% / 80% by channel.

What is #f7e2cc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(31, 73%, 88%) and hsv(31, 17%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f7e2cc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7853 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 16.71:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f7e2cc?

Black. It scores 16.71:1 against #f7e2cc, versus 1.26:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f7e2cc accessible on a white background?

#f7e2cc on white scores 1.26:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #A9641B to reach 4.5:1, or #824C14 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f7e2cc?

#CCE1F7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CCF6F7 and #CCCCF7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f7e2cc?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #EDD7C0 for borders, #9B744B for secondary text, #188AB4 as an accent and #6E4111 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F7CCCC and #F6F7CC stays calm, while #CCE1F7 is the loudest partner.

What is #f7e2cc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 9%, 17%, 3%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f7e2cc warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 1 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FAEDE2; nudged cooler, #F8D2CB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f7e2cc?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 23.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f7e2cc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f7e2cc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f7e2cc] or text-[#f7e2cc], 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 #f7e2cc with 50% opacity?

rgba(247, 226, 204, 0.5), or #f7e2cc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBF1E6; over black, #7C7166.

Is #f7e2cc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 15.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f7e2cc 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 #f7e2cc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FCF5ED, #f7e2cc 45%, #6E4111). For more colour, a short hue run to #E2F3B1 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f7e2cc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f7e2cc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.