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#fd9367

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

Token name suggestion: Meadow Marmalade

RGB
253, 147, 103
HSL
18°, 97%, 70%
CMYK
0, 42, 59, 1
Luminance
0.4273

#fd9367 is a light electric orange, 18° on the wheel and 7/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.55:1). As text it scores 2.20:1 on white — use #D74103 instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(18 97% 70%)rgb(253 147 103)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fd9367 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fd9367
Hue
18°
orange
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
70%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
71%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4273
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
7/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
9.55:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 3.4
Chroma
54.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.767
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 10.4
Web-safe
#FF9966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue18° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness70%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fd9367.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool7% 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
Red49%
Green49%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#fd9367
HEX (8-digit)#fd9367ff
RGBrgb(253, 147, 103)
RGBArgba(253, 147, 103, 1)
HSLhsl(18, 97%, 70%)
HSV / HSBhsv(18, 59%, 99%)
HWBhwb(18 40% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 42%, 59%, 1%)
LABlab(71.4 36.0 40.3)
LCHlch(71.4 54.0 48.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.767 0.141 42.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(53.39, 42.73, 18.27)
Decimal16618343
Display P3color(display-p3 0.992 0.576 0.404)
Web-safe#FF9966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fd9367;
background-color: #fd9367;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fd9367;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fd9367] bg-[#fd9367]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fd9367;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.992, green: 0.576, blue: 0.404)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.576, blue: 0.404, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FD9367</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFD9367)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFD9367)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(103, 147, 253)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(253, 147, 103)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(253, 147, 103)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 253, 147, 103)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9922f, 0.5765f, 0.4039f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{253,147,103}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fd9367 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fd9367 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7E2602, #EEDBD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fd9367 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: #FDF5F1;
  --brand-100: #FCEBE4;
  --brand-200: #FBD2C1;
  --brand-300: #FEB090;
  --brand-400: #fd9367;
  --brand-500: #FC6222;
  --brand-600: #F24903;
  --brand-700: #C93D03;
  --brand-800: #A13102;
  --brand-900: #742706;
  --brand-950: #491804;
  --brand: #fd9367;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCDC0;
  --brand-hover: #FD7A44;
  --brand-pressed: #FC6121;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDBD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF5F1',
        100: '#FCEBE4',
        200: '#FBD2C1',
        300: '#FEB090',
        400: '#fd9367',
        500: '#FC6222',
        600: '#F24903',
        700: '#C93D03',
        800: '#A13102',
        900: '#742706',
        950: '#491804',
        DEFAULT: '#fd9367',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF5F1,
  '100': #FCEBE4,
  '200': #FBD2C1,
  '300': #FEB090,
  '400': #fd9367,
  '500': #FC6222,
  '600': #F24903,
  '700': #C93D03,
  '800': #A13102,
  '900': #742706,
  '950': #491804,
);
$brand-base: #fd9367;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF5F1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCEBE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBD2C1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FEB090", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#fd9367", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FC6222", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F24903", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C93D03", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A13102", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#742706", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#491804", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fd9367 · 9.55:1
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 · 9.55:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fd9367 as text scores 2.20:1 on white and 9.55:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7E2602 at 4.41:1.

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
#D74103 · 4.52:1
AA on white−27% L
#D74103
The quick fox
#A03002 · 7.20:1
AAA on white−38% L
#A03002
The quick fox
#fd9367 · 9.55:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fd9367
The quick fox
#fd9367 · 9.55:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fd9367

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FC6426 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
#fd9367 on white: 2.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fd9367 on black: 9.55:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fd9367 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fd9367.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.20:1AaAa
Slate 502.10:1AaAa
Slate 1002.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.78:1AaAa
Slate 3001.48:1AaAa
Slate 4001.17:1AaAa
Slate 5002.16:1AaAa
Slate 6003.44:1AaAa
Slate 7004.71:1AaAa
Slate 8006.65:1AaAa
Slate 9008.12:1AaAa
Black9.55:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #AFA163
deuteranopia · #C9B866
tritanopia · #FF8088

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. #fd9367 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.

#FDF5F1
#FCEBE4
#FBD2C1
#FEB090
#fd9367
#FC6222
#F24903
#C93D03
#A13102
#742706
#491804
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FDF5F1Darkest = 950 · #491804Text 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 0.035 42.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.056 42.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.085 42.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.110 42.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.130 42.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.141 42.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.141 42.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.133 42.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.118 42.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.099 42.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.078 42.9);
}

Colors that work with #fd9367

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#EDCDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B624B
Captions on the surface
Accent#00C3CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7E2602
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFEDE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#FD7A44
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FC6121
Two steps down
Disabled#EFE8E5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFA179
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
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Acme LtdActive
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GlobexActive

How to use #fd9367

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 #7E2602
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FC6426

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
  • Weight30/100
  • 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#67D1FD
Analogous left#FD6786
Analogous right#FDDE67
Split-complement 1#67FDDE
Split-complement 2#6786FD
Triadic 1#67FD93
Triadic 2#9367FD
Tetradic#86FD67
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°18°

#fd9367 sits at 18°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.2%
Green57.6%
Blue40.4%
R · 0–255
253
0xfd
G · 0–255
147
0x93
B · 0–255
103
0x67

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta41.9%
Yellow59.3%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 102%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fd9367 text on a black background

contrast 9.55:1

Card sample

#fd9367 text on a white background

contrast 2.20:1

Card sample

#fd9367 on grey

2.01:1

#fd9367 on its own surface

2.05:1

#fd9367 on its dark surface

7.80:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fd9367;
Background color
Panel with #fd9367 background
background-color: #fd9367;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fd9367;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(253, 147, 103, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(253, 147, 103, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fd9367;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fd9367, #FDF767);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fd9367, #DDFD67);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fd9367;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fd9367;
caret-color: #fd9367;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fd9367;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFEDE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fd9367;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fd9367 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fd9367 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(253, 147, 103, 0.5)
rgb(253 147 103 / 50%)
#fd936780
hsl(18 97% 70% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fd9367 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fd93671a#FFF4F0
20%#fd936733#FFE9E1
40%#fd936766#FED4C2
60%#fd936799#FEBEA4
80%#fd9367cc#FDA985

Gradients from #fd9367

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, #FEBEA3, #fd9367 45%, #7E2602);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fd9367, #F5FD49);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fd9367, #67D1FD);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FED3C2 0%, #fd9367 45%, #7E2602 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%, #FE99B6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FDEF85 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7E2602 0%, transparent 65%), #fd9367;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fd9367

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.

#fd9367 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 9.55:1.

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.

#fd9367, answered

What color is #fd9367?

#fd9367 is a light electric orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 3.4). It sits at 18° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 70% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fd9367?

rgb(253, 147, 103) — 253 red, 147 green and 103 blue out of 255, or 99.2% / 57.6% / 40.4% by channel.

What is #fd9367 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(18, 97%, 70%) and hsv(18, 59%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fd9367 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4273 and perceived brightness is 71%, so black text on it reaches 9.55:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fd9367?

Black. It scores 9.55:1 against #fd9367, versus 2.20:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fd9367 accessible on a white background?

#fd9367 on white scores 2.20:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D74103 to reach 4.5:1, or #A03002 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fd9367?

#67D1FD sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #67FDDE and #6786FD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fd9367?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCDC0 for borders, #9B624B for secondary text, #00C3CC as an accent and #7E2602 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FD6786 and #FDDE67 stays calm, while #67D1FD is the loudest partner.

What is #fd9367 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 42%, 59%, 1%). 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 #fd9367 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 7 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FDAF80; nudged cooler, #FF6571.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fd9367?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 10.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fd9367 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fd9367 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fd9367] or text-[#fd9367], 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 #fd9367 with 50% opacity?

rgba(253, 147, 103, 0.5), or #fd936780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FEC9B3; over black, #7F4A34.

Is #fd9367 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9966, ΔE2000 2.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fd9367 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 #fd9367?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEBEA3, #fd9367 45%, #7E2602). For more colour, a short hue run to #F5FD49 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fd9367 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fd9367 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.