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#feaf89

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

Token name suggestion: Linen Marmalade

RGB
254, 175, 137
HSL
20°, 98%, 77%
CMYK
0, 31, 46, 0
Luminance
0.5354

#feaf89 is a light electric orange, 20° on the wheel and 6/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.71:1). As text it scores 1.79:1 on white — use #D34602 instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(20 98% 77%)rgb(254 175 137)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #feaf89 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#feaf89
Hue
20°
orange
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
77%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5354
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
6/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.71:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 4.1
Chroma
39.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.821
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 16
Web-safe
#FF9999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue20° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness77%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #feaf89.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool6% 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
Red39%
Green57%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#feaf89
HEX (8-digit)#feaf89ff
RGBrgb(254, 175, 137)
RGBArgba(254, 175, 137, 1)
HSLhsl(20, 98%, 77%)
HSV / HSBhsv(19, 46%, 100%)
HWBhwb(20 54% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 31%, 46%, 0%)
LABlab(78.2 24.6 31.1)
LCHlch(78.2 39.7 51.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.821 0.106 46.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(60.72, 53.54, 30.80)
Decimal16691081
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 0.686 0.537)
Web-safe#FF9999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #feaf89;
background-color: #feaf89;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #feaf89;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#feaf89] bg-[#feaf89]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #feaf89;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 0.686, blue: 0.537)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.686, blue: 0.537, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FEAF89</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFEAF89)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFEAF89)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(137, 175, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 175, 137)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 175, 137)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 175, 137)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 0.6863f, 0.5373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,175,137}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #feaf89 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #feaf89 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7E2A01, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #feaf89 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: #FCEBE3;
  --brand-200: #FBD4C1;
  --brand-300: #feaf89;
  --brand-400: #FE8E58;
  --brand-500: #FD6821;
  --brand-600: #F35002;
  --brand-700: #CA4302;
  --brand-800: #A23601;
  --brand-900: #752A06;
  --brand-950: #491A04;
  --brand: #feaf89;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCEC0;
  --brand-hover: #FE9766;
  --brand-pressed: #FD7F42;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF5F1',
        100: '#FCEBE3',
        200: '#FBD4C1',
        300: '#feaf89',
        400: '#FE8E58',
        500: '#FD6821',
        600: '#F35002',
        700: '#CA4302',
        800: '#A23601',
        900: '#752A06',
        950: '#491A04',
        DEFAULT: '#feaf89',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF5F1,
  '100': #FCEBE3,
  '200': #FBD4C1,
  '300': #feaf89,
  '400': #FE8E58,
  '500': #FD6821,
  '600': #F35002,
  '700': #CA4302,
  '800': #A23601,
  '900': #752A06,
  '950': #491A04,
);
$brand-base: #feaf89;
$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": "#FCEBE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBD4C1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#feaf89", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FE8E58", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FD6821", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F35002", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CA4302", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A23601", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#752A06", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#491A04", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #feaf89 · 11.71:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.79:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.71:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #feaf89 as text scores 1.79:1 on white and 11.71:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7E2A01 at 5.28:1.

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
#D34602 · 4.52:1
AA on white−35% L
#D34602
The quick fox
#9B3301 · 7.32:1
AAA on white−46% L
#9B3301
The quick fox
#feaf89 · 11.71:1
AA on blackalready passes
#feaf89
The quick fox
#feaf89 · 11.71:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#feaf89

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FD6015 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
#feaf89 on white: 1.79:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#feaf89 on black: 11.71:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #feaf89 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #feaf89.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.79:1AaAa
Slate 501.71:1AaAa
Slate 1001.64:1AaAa
Slate 2001.46:1AaAa
Slate 3001.21:1AaAa
Slate 4001.43:1AaAa
Slate 5002.65:1AaAa
Slate 6004.22:1AaAa
Slate 7005.77:1AaAa
Slate 8008.16:1AaAa
Slate 9009.95:1AaAa
Black11.71:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C4B786
deuteranopia · #D6C889
tritanopia · #FFA1A5

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. #feaf89 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.

#FDF5F1
#FCEBE3
#FBD4C1
#feaf89
#FE8E58
#FD6821
#F35002
#CA4302
#A23601
#752A06
#491A04
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FDF5F1Darkest = 950 · #491A04Text 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 0.027 46.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.042 46.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.064 46.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.083 46.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.098 46.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.106 46.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.106 46.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.100 46.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.089 46.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.074 46.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.058 46.5);
}

Colors that work with #feaf89

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#EDCEC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B654B
Captions on the surface
Accent#00BDCC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7E2A01
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFEEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#FE9766
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FD7F42
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFBD9D
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 #feaf89

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 #7E2A01
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FD6015

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
  • Weight23/100
  • 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#89D8FE
Analogous left#FE899E
Analogous right#FEEA89
Split-complement 1#89FEEA
Split-complement 2#899EFE
Triadic 1#89FEAF
Triadic 2#AF89FE
Tetradic#9EFE89
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°20°

#feaf89 sits at 20°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green68.6%
Blue53.7%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
175
0xaf
B · 0–255
137
0x89

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta31.1%
Yellow46.1%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 78%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#feaf89 text on a black background

contrast 11.71:1

Card sample

#feaf89 text on a white background

contrast 1.79:1

Card sample

#feaf89 on grey

1.64:1

#feaf89 on its own surface

1.67:1

#feaf89 on its dark surface

9.56:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #feaf89;
Background color
Panel with #feaf89 background
background-color: #feaf89;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #feaf89;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 175, 137, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 175, 137, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #feaf89;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #feaf89, #FEFD89);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feaf89, #E2FE89);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #feaf89;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #feaf89;
caret-color: #feaf89;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #feaf89;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFEEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #feaf89;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#feaf89 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #feaf89 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, 175, 137, 0.5)
rgb(254 175 137 / 50%)
#feaf8980
hsl(20 98% 77% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #feaf89 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#feaf891a#FFF7F3
20%#feaf8933#FFEFE7
40%#feaf8966#FFDFD0
60%#feaf8999#FECFB8
80%#feaf89cc#FEBFA1

Gradients from #feaf89

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, #FFD8C6, #feaf89 45%, #7E2A01);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #feaf89, #F3FE6B);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feaf89, #89D8FE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFEDE4 0%, #feaf89 45%, #7E2A01 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%, #FEBCCD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FEF6A8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7E2A01 0%, transparent 65%), #feaf89;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #feaf89

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.

#feaf89 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 11.71:1.

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.

#feaf89, answered

What color is #feaf89?

#feaf89 is a light electric orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 4.1). It sits at 20° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 77% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #feaf89?

rgb(254, 175, 137) — 254 red, 175 green and 137 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 68.6% / 53.7% by channel.

What is #feaf89 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(20, 98%, 77%) and hsv(19, 46%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #feaf89 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5354 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 11.71:1.

Should I use black or white text on #feaf89?

Black. It scores 11.71:1 against #feaf89, versus 1.79:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #feaf89 accessible on a white background?

#feaf89 on white scores 1.79:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D34602 to reach 4.5:1, or #9B3301 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #feaf89?

#89D8FE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #89FEEA and #899EFE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #feaf89?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCEC0 for borders, #9B654B for secondary text, #00BDCC as an accent and #7E2A01 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FE899E and #FEEA89 stays calm, while #89D8FE is the loudest partner.

What is #feaf89 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 31%, 46%, 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 #feaf89 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 6 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FEC6A2; nudged cooler, #FF888D.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #feaf89?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 16 away. That is a visible difference, so define #feaf89 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #feaf89 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#feaf89] or text-[#feaf89], 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 #feaf89 with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 175, 137, 0.5), or #feaf8980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFD7C4; over black, #7F5845.

Is #feaf89 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF9999, ΔE2000 14.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #feaf89 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 #feaf89?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFD8C6, #feaf89 45%, #7E2A01). For more colour, a short hue run to #F3FE6B keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #feaf89 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #feaf89 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.