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#f89573

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

Token name suggestion: Meadow Amber

RGB
248, 149, 115
HSL
15°, 91%, 71%
CMYK
0, 40, 54, 3
Luminance
0.4269

#f89573 is a light electric orange, 15° on the wheel and 8/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.54:1). As text it scores 2.20:1 on white — use #D73F0B instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(15 91% 71%)rgb(248 149 115)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f89573 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f89573
Hue
15°
orange
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
71%
light
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
71%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4269
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
8/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
9.54:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 3
Chroma
47.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.766
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 12.7
Web-safe
#FF9966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue15° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness71%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f89573.

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
Red47%
Green50%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#f89573
HEX (8-digit)#f89573ff
RGBrgb(248, 149, 115)
RGBArgba(248, 149, 115, 1)
HSLhsl(15, 91%, 71%)
HSV / HSBhsv(15, 54%, 97%)
HWBhwb(15 45% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 40%, 54%, 3%)
LABlab(71.3 33.9 33.8)
LCHlch(71.3 47.9 44.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.766 0.129 39.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(52.56, 42.69, 21.69)
Decimal16291187
Display P3color(display-p3 0.973 0.584 0.451)
Web-safe#FF9966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f89573;
background-color: #f89573;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f89573;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f89573] bg-[#f89573]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f89573;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.973, green: 0.584, blue: 0.451)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.973, green: 0.584, blue: 0.451, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F89573</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF89573)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF89573)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(115, 149, 248)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(248, 149, 115)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(248, 149, 115)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 248, 149, 115)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9725f, 0.5843f, 0.4510f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{248,149,115}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f89573 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f89573 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#792306, #EEDAD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f89573 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: #FDF5F2;
  --brand-100: #FBEAE5;
  --brand-200: #F9D1C3;
  --brand-300: #FAAE94;
  --brand-400: #f89573;
  --brand-500: #F45D29;
  --brand-600: #E9440C;
  --brand-700: #C2390A;
  --brand-800: #9B2D08;
  --brand-900: #70240A;
  --brand-950: #461706;
  --brand: #f89573;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCBC0;
  --brand-hover: #F67B51;
  --brand-pressed: #F5612F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241814;
    --brand-ink: #EEDAD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF5F2',
        100: '#FBEAE5',
        200: '#F9D1C3',
        300: '#FAAE94',
        400: '#f89573',
        500: '#F45D29',
        600: '#E9440C',
        700: '#C2390A',
        800: '#9B2D08',
        900: '#70240A',
        950: '#461706',
        DEFAULT: '#f89573',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF5F2,
  '100': #FBEAE5,
  '200': #F9D1C3,
  '300': #FAAE94,
  '400': #f89573,
  '500': #F45D29,
  '600': #E9440C,
  '700': #C2390A,
  '800': #9B2D08,
  '900': #70240A,
  '950': #461706,
);
$brand-base: #f89573;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF5F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBEAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F9D1C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FAAE94", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#f89573", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F45D29", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#E9440C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C2390A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9B2D08", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#70240A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#461706", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f89573 · 9.54:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.20:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.54:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f89573 as text scores 2.20:1 on white and 9.54:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #792306 at 4.64:1.

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
#D73F0B · 4.56:1
AA on white−27% L
#D73F0B
The quick fox
#A12F08 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−38% L
#A12F08
The quick fox
#f89573 · 9.54:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f89573
The quick fox
#f89573 · 9.54:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f89573

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F56939 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
#f89573 on white: 2.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f89573 on black: 9.54:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f89573 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f89573.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.20:1AaAa
Slate 502.10:1AaAa
Slate 1002.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.79:1AaAa
Slate 3001.48:1AaAa
Slate 4001.16:1AaAa
Slate 5002.16:1AaAa
Slate 6003.44:1AaAa
Slate 7004.70:1AaAa
Slate 8006.64:1AaAa
Slate 9008.11:1AaAa
Black9.54:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #AEA270
deuteranopia · #C6B772
tritanopia · #FF848D

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. #f89573 is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FDF5F2
#FBEAE5
#F9D1C3
#FAAE94
#f89573
#F45D29
#E9440C
#C2390A
#9B2D08
#70240A
#461706
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FDF5F2Darkest = 950 · #461706Text 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 0.032 39.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 39.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.077 39.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.100 39.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.118 39.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.129 39.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.129 39.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.121 39.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.108 39.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.090 39.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.071 39.6);
}

Colors that work with #f89573

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#06C5C6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#792306
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEEDE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241814
Dark-mode background
Hover#F67B51
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F5612F
Two steps down
Disabled#F1ECEA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFA181
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 #f89573

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 #792306
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F56939

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
  • Weight29/100
  • 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#73D6F8
Analogous left#F87394
Analogous right#F8D773
Split-complement 1#73F8D7
Split-complement 2#7394F8
Triadic 1#73F895
Triadic 2#9573F8
Tetradic#94F873
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°15°

#f89573 sits at 15°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red97.3%
Green58.4%
Blue45.1%
R · 0–255
248
0xf8
G · 0–255
149
0x95
B · 0–255
115
0x73

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta39.9%
Yellow53.6%
Key (black)2.7%

Total ink coverage is 96%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f89573 text on a black background

contrast 9.54:1

Card sample

#f89573 text on a white background

contrast 2.20:1

Card sample

#f89573 on grey

2.01:1

#f89573 on its own surface

2.05:1

#f89573 on its dark surface

7.85:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f89573;
Background color
Panel with #f89573 background
background-color: #f89573;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f89573;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(248, 149, 115, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(248, 149, 115, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f89573;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f89573, #F8EE73);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f89573, #E1F873);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f89573;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f89573;
caret-color: #f89573;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f89573;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEEDE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f89573;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f89573 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f89573 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(248, 149, 115, 0.5)
rgb(248 149 115 / 50%)
#f8957380
hsl(15 91% 71% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f89573 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f895731a#FEF4F1
20%#f8957333#FEEAE3
40%#f8957366#FCD5C7
60%#f8957399#FBBFAB
80%#f89573cc#F9AA8F

Gradients from #f89573

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, #FBC1AD, #f89573 45%, #792306);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f89573, #F6F756);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f89573, #73D6F8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCD7CB 0%, #f89573 45%, #792306 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%, #FAA4C0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F9E890 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #792306 0%, transparent 65%), #f89573;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f89573

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.

#f89573 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 9.54:1.

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.

#f89573, answered

What color is #f89573?

#f89573 is a light electric orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 3). It sits at 15° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 71% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f89573?

rgb(248, 149, 115) — 248 red, 149 green and 115 blue out of 255, or 97.3% / 58.4% / 45.1% by channel.

What is #f89573 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(15, 91%, 71%) and hsv(15, 54%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f89573 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4269 and perceived brightness is 71%, so black text on it reaches 9.54:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f89573?

Black. It scores 9.54:1 against #f89573, versus 2.20:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f89573 accessible on a white background?

#f89573 on white scores 2.20:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D73F0B to reach 4.5:1, or #A12F08 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f89573?

#73D6F8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #73F8D7 and #7394F8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f89573?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCBC0 for borders, #9B5F4B for secondary text, #06C5C6 as an accent and #792306 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F87394 and #F8D773 stays calm, while #73D6F8 is the loudest partner.

What is #f89573 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 40%, 54%, 3%). 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 #f89573 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 #F8A373; nudged cooler, #F97281.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f89573?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 12.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f89573 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f89573 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f89573] or text-[#f89573], 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 #f89573 with 50% opacity?

rgba(248, 149, 115, 0.5), or #f8957380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FCCAB9; over black, #7C4B3A.

Is #f89573 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9966, ΔE2000 4.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f89573 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 #f89573?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FBC1AD, #f89573 45%, #792306). For more colour, a short hue run to #F6F756 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f89573 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f89573 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.