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#feab7e

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

Token name suggestion: Drift Marmalade

RGB
254, 171, 126
HSL
21°, 99%, 75%
CMYK
0, 33, 50, 0
Luminance
0.5170

#feab7e is a light electric orange, 21° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.34:1). As text it scores 1.85:1 on white — use #CD4902 instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(21 99% 75%)rgb(254 171 126)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #feab7e is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#feab7e
Hue
21°
orange
Saturation
99%
electric
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
77%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5170
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.34:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 4.1
Chroma
43.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.812
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 14.4
Web-safe
#FF9966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue21° of 360°
Saturation99%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #feab7e.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool5% 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
Red41%
Green56%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#feab7e
HEX (8-digit)#feab7eff
RGBrgb(254, 171, 126)
RGBArgba(254, 171, 126, 1)
HSLhsl(21, 99%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(21, 50%, 100%)
HWBhwb(21 49% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 33%, 50%, 0%)
LABlab(77.1 25.7 35.5)
LCHlch(77.1 43.8 54.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.812 0.115 49.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(59.21, 51.71, 26.60)
Decimal16690046
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 0.671 0.494)
Web-safe#FF9966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #feab7e;
background-color: #feab7e;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #feab7e;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#feab7e] bg-[#feab7e]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #feab7e;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 0.671, blue: 0.494)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.671, blue: 0.494, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FEAB7E</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFEAB7E)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFEAB7E)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(126, 171, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 171, 126)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 171, 126)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 171, 126)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 0.6706f, 0.4941f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,171,126}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #feab7e 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #feab7e 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7F2D01, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #feab7e 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: #FEF6F1;
  --brand-100: #FCECE3;
  --brand-200: #FBD5C1;
  --brand-300: #feab7e;
  --brand-400: #FE9258;
  --brand-500: #FD6E20;
  --brand-600: #F35702;
  --brand-700: #CA4802;
  --brand-800: #A23A01;
  --brand-900: #752D06;
  --brand-950: #491C04;
  --brand: #feab7e;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD0C0;
  --brand-hover: #FE945A;
  --brand-pressed: #FD7D37;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241A14;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FEF6F1',
        100: '#FCECE3',
        200: '#FBD5C1',
        300: '#feab7e',
        400: '#FE9258',
        500: '#FD6E20',
        600: '#F35702',
        700: '#CA4802',
        800: '#A23A01',
        900: '#752D06',
        950: '#491C04',
        DEFAULT: '#feab7e',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FEF6F1,
  '100': #FCECE3,
  '200': #FBD5C1,
  '300': #feab7e,
  '400': #FE9258,
  '500': #FD6E20,
  '600': #F35702,
  '700': #CA4802,
  '800': #A23A01,
  '900': #752D06,
  '950': #491C04,
);
$brand-base: #feab7e;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FEF6F1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCECE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBD5C1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#feab7e", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FE9258", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FD6E20", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F35702", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CA4802", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A23A01", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#752D06", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#491C04", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #feab7e · 11.34:1
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 · 11.34:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #feab7e as text scores 1.85:1 on white and 11.34:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7F2D01 at 4.98:1.

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
#CD4902 · 4.62:1
AA on white−34% L
#CD4902
The quick fox
#9A3701 · 7.19:1
AAA on white−44% L
#9A3701
The quick fox
#feab7e · 11.34:1
AA on blackalready passes
#feab7e
The quick fox
#feab7e · 11.34:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#feab7e

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FD620F 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
#feab7e on white: 1.85:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#feab7e on black: 11.34:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #feab7e as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #feab7e.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.85:1AaAa
Slate 501.77:1AaAa
Slate 1001.69:1AaAa
Slate 2001.50:1AaAa
Slate 3001.25:1AaAa
Slate 4001.38:1AaAa
Slate 5002.57:1AaAa
Slate 6004.09:1AaAa
Slate 7005.59:1AaAa
Slate 8007.90:1AaAa
Slate 9009.64:1AaAa
Black11.34:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C2B47A
deuteranopia · #D5C57E
tritanopia · #FF9CA0

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. #feab7e 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.

#FEF6F1
#FCECE3
#FBD5C1
#feab7e
#FE9258
#FD6E20
#F35702
#CA4802
#A23A01
#752D06
#491C04
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FEF6F1Darkest = 950 · #491C04Text 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 0.029 49.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.046 49.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.069 49.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.089 49.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.106 49.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.115 49.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.115 49.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.108 49.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.096 49.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.080 49.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.063 49.0);
}

Colors that work with #feab7e

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#EDD0C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B674B
Captions on the surface
Accent#00B8CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7F2D01
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFEFE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241A14
Dark-mode background
Hover#FE945A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FD7D37
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFB891
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 #feab7e

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 #7F2D01
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FD620F

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#7ED1FE
Analogous left#FE7E91
Analogous right#FEEB7E
Split-complement 1#7EFEEB
Split-complement 2#7E91FE
Triadic 1#7EFEAB
Triadic 2#AB7EFE
Tetradic#91FE7E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°21°

#feab7e sits at 21°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green67.1%
Blue49.4%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
171
0xab
B · 0–255
126
0x7e

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta32.7%
Yellow50.4%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 84%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#feab7e text on a black background

contrast 11.34:1

Card sample

#feab7e text on a white background

contrast 1.85:1

Card sample

#feab7e on grey

1.69:1

#feab7e on its own surface

1.72:1

#feab7e on its dark surface

9.20:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #feab7e;
Background color
Panel with #feab7e background
background-color: #feab7e;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #feab7e;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 171, 126, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 171, 126, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #feab7e;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #feab7e, #FCFE7E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feab7e, #DCFE7E);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #feab7e;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #feab7e;
caret-color: #feab7e;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #feab7e;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFEFE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #feab7e;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#feab7e 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #feab7e 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(254, 171, 126, 0.5)
rgb(254 171 126 / 50%)
#feab7e80
hsl(21 99% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #feab7e 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#feab7e1a#FFF7F2
20%#feab7e33#FFEEE5
40%#feab7e66#FFDDCB
60%#feab7e99#FECDB2
80%#feab7ecc#FEBC98

Gradients from #feab7e

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, #FED3BB, #feab7e 45%, #7F2D01);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #feab7e, #EEFE60);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feab7e, #7ED1FE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFE6D9 0%, #feab7e 45%, #7F2D01 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%, #FEB1C3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FEF89C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7F2D01 0%, transparent 65%), #feab7e;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #feab7e

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.

#feab7e 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 11.34:1.

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.

#feab7e, answered

What color is #feab7e?

#feab7e is a light electric orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 4.1). It sits at 21° on the hue wheel with 99% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #feab7e?

rgb(254, 171, 126) — 254 red, 171 green and 126 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 67.1% / 49.4% by channel.

What is #feab7e in HSL and HSV?

hsl(21, 99%, 75%) and hsv(21, 50%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #feab7e a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5170 and perceived brightness is 77%, so black text on it reaches 11.34:1.

Should I use black or white text on #feab7e?

Black. It scores 11.34:1 against #feab7e, versus 1.85:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #feab7e accessible on a white background?

#feab7e on white scores 1.85:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CD4902 to reach 4.5:1, or #9A3701 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #feab7e?

#7ED1FE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7EFEEB and #7E91FE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #feab7e?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDD0C0 for borders, #9B674B for secondary text, #00B8CC as an accent and #7F2D01 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FE7E91 and #FEEB7E stays calm, while #7ED1FE is the loudest partner.

What is #feab7e in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 33%, 50%, 0%). 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 #feab7e warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 5 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FEC097; nudged cooler, #FF7D7F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #feab7e?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 14.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #feab7e as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #feab7e in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#feab7e] or text-[#feab7e], 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 #feab7e with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 171, 126, 0.5), or #feab7e80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFD5BF; over black, #7F563F.

Is #feab7e 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 #feab7e 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 #feab7e?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FED3BB, #feab7e 45%, #7F2D01). For more colour, a short hue run to #EEFE60 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #feab7e in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #feab7e at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.