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orange · warm

#d7ccc0

a light, soft orange · warm · closest name: Light Gray

Token name suggestion: Morning Apricot

RGB
215, 204, 192
HSL
31°, 22%, 80%
CMYK
0, 5, 11, 16
Luminance
0.6144

#d7ccc0 is a light soft orange, 31° on the wheel and 19/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.29:1). As text it scores 1.58:1 on white — use #897157 instead. Nearest name is Light Gray, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(31 22% 80%)rgb(215 204 192)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d7ccc0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d7ccc0
Hue
31°
orange
Saturation
22%
soft
Lightness
80%
light
Brightness
84%
HSV value
Perceived
81%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6144
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
19/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
13.29:1
Closest name
Light Gray
ΔE2000 6.8
Chroma
7.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.851
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 24.7
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue31° of 360°
Saturation22%
Lightness80%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d7ccc0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool19% 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
Red24%
Green70%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#d7ccc0
HEX (8-digit)#d7ccc0ff
RGBrgb(215, 204, 192)
RGBArgba(215, 204, 192, 1)
HSLhsl(31, 22%, 80%)
HSV / HSBhsv(31, 11%, 84%)
HWBhwb(31 75% 16%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 5%, 11%, 16%)
LABlab(82.6 1.8 7.3)
LCHlch(82.6 7.5 76.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.851 0.021 70.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(59.13, 61.44, 58.60)
Decimal14142656
Display P3color(display-p3 0.843 0.800 0.753)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d7ccc0;
background-color: #d7ccc0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d7ccc0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d7ccc0] bg-[#d7ccc0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d7ccc0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.843, green: 0.800, blue: 0.753)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.843, green: 0.800, blue: 0.753, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D7CCC0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD7CCC0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD7CCC0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(192, 204, 215)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(215, 204, 192)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(215, 204, 192)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 215, 204, 192)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8431f, 0.8000f, 0.7529f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{215,204,192}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d7ccc0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d7ccc0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4E4032, #E7E1DA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d7ccc0 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: #F9F7F6;
  --brand-100: #F2F0ED;
  --brand-200: #E4DED7;
  --brand-300: #d7ccc0;
  --brand-400: #BEAC98;
  --brand-500: #A89076;
  --brand-600: #967C5F;
  --brand-700: #7D674F;
  --brand-800: #64523F;
  --brand-900: #4A3E31;
  --brand-950: #2E271E;
  --brand: #d7ccc0;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F7F6;
  --brand-border: #DFD7CD;
  --brand-hover: #C9BAAA;
  --brand-pressed: #BBA994;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #221C16;
    --brand-ink: #E7E1DA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F7F6',
        100: '#F2F0ED',
        200: '#E4DED7',
        300: '#d7ccc0',
        400: '#BEAC98',
        500: '#A89076',
        600: '#967C5F',
        700: '#7D674F',
        800: '#64523F',
        900: '#4A3E31',
        950: '#2E271E',
        DEFAULT: '#d7ccc0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F7F6,
  '100': #F2F0ED,
  '200': #E4DED7,
  '300': #d7ccc0,
  '400': #BEAC98,
  '500': #A89076,
  '600': #967C5F,
  '700': #7D674F,
  '800': #64523F,
  '900': #4A3E31,
  '950': #2E271E,
);
$brand-base: #d7ccc0;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F7F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F0ED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E4DED7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#d7ccc0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BEAC98", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A89076", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#967C5F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7D674F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#64523F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4A3E31", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E271E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d7ccc0 · 13.29:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.58:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.29:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d7ccc0 as text scores 1.58:1 on white and 13.29:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4E4032 at 6.32:1.

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
#897157 · 4.60:1
AA on white−36% L
#897157
The quick fox
#665441 · 7.22:1
AAA on white−47% L
#665441
The quick fox
#d7ccc0 · 13.29:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d7ccc0
The quick fox
#d7ccc0 · 13.29:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d7ccc0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A78F75 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
#d7ccc0 on white: 1.58:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d7ccc0 on black: 13.29:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d7ccc0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d7ccc0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.58:1AaAa
Slate 501.51:1AaAa
Slate 1001.44:1AaAa
Slate 2001.28:1AaAa
Slate 3001.06:1AaAa
Slate 4001.62:1AaAa
Slate 5003.01:1AaAa
Slate 6004.79:1AaAa
Slate 7006.55:1AaAa
Slate 8009.26:1AaAa
Slate 90011.30:1AaAa
Black13.29:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D0CCBF
deuteranopia · #D3CFC0
tritanopia · #DCC9C9

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. #d7ccc0 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.

#F9F7F6
#F2F0ED
#E4DED7
#d7ccc0
#BEAC98
#A89076
#967C5F
#7D674F
#64523F
#4A3E31
#2E271E
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F9F7F6Darkest = 950 · #2E271EText 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 0.005 70.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.008 70.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.012 70.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.016 70.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.019 70.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.021 70.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.021 70.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.019 70.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.017 70.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.014 70.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.011 70.0);
}

Colors that work with #d7ccc0

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#F9F7F6
Tinted page background
Border#DFD7CD
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8C7459
Captions on the surface
Accent#4B7381
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4E4032
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5F2EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#221C16
Dark-mode background
Hover#C9BAAA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BBA994
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E3D6C8
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 #d7ccc0

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #4E4032
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A78F75

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight20/100
  • 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#C0CBD7
Analogous left#D7C1C0
Analogous right#D6D7C0
Split-complement 1#C0D6D7
Split-complement 2#C1C0D7
Triadic 1#C0D7CC
Triadic 2#CCC0D7
Tetradic#C0D7C1
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°31°

#d7ccc0 sits at 31°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.3%
Green80.0%
Blue75.3%
R · 0–255
215
0xd7
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
192
0xc0

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta5.1%
Yellow10.7%
Key (black)15.7%

Total ink coverage is 32%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d7ccc0 text on a black background

contrast 13.29:1

Card sample

#d7ccc0 text on a white background

contrast 1.58:1

Card sample

#d7ccc0 on grey

1.44:1

#d7ccc0 on its own surface

1.48:1

#d7ccc0 on its dark surface

10.67:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d7ccc0;
Background color
Panel with #d7ccc0 background
background-color: #d7ccc0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d7ccc0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(215, 204, 192, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(215, 204, 192, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d7ccc0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d7ccc0, #D3D7C0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d7ccc0, #CDD7C0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d7ccc0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d7ccc0;
caret-color: #d7ccc0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d7ccc0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5F2EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d7ccc0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d7ccc0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d7ccc0 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(215, 204, 192, 0.5)
rgb(215 204 192 / 50%)
#d7ccc080
hsl(31 22% 80% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d7ccc0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d7ccc01a#FBFAF9
20%#d7ccc033#F7F5F2
40%#d7ccc066#EFEBE6
60%#d7ccc099#E7E0D9
80%#d7ccc0cc#DFD6CD

Gradients from #d7ccc0

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, #EFEAE5, #d7ccc0 45%, #4E4032);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d7ccc0, #C3CBAD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d7ccc0, #C0CBD7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9F7F6 0%, #d7ccc0 45%, #4E4032 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F7F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #EBDFE0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E1E3D3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4E4032 0%, transparent 65%), #d7ccc0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d7ccc0

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.

#d7ccc0 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 13.29:1.

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.

#d7ccc0, answered

What color is #d7ccc0?

#d7ccc0 is a light soft orange, closest to Light Gray (ΔE2000 6.8). It sits at 31° on the hue wheel with 22% saturation and 80% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #d7ccc0?

rgb(215, 204, 192) — 215 red, 204 green and 192 blue out of 255, or 84.3% / 80% / 75.3% by channel.

What is #d7ccc0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(31, 22%, 80%) and hsv(31, 11%, 84%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d7ccc0 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6144 and perceived brightness is 81%, so black text on it reaches 13.29:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d7ccc0?

Black. It scores 13.29:1 against #d7ccc0, versus 1.58:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d7ccc0 accessible on a white background?

#d7ccc0 on white scores 1.58:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #897157 to reach 4.5:1, or #665441 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d7ccc0?

#C0CBD7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C0D6D7 and #C1C0D7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d7ccc0?

For interface work: #F9F7F6 as the surface, #DFD7CD for borders, #8C7459 for secondary text, #4B7381 as an accent and #4E4032 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D7C1C0 and #D6D7C0 stays calm, while #C0CBD7 is the loudest partner.

What is #d7ccc0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 5%, 11%, 16%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d7ccc0 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 19 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E1D7D0; nudged cooler, #D8C3BF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d7ccc0?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 24.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d7ccc0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d7ccc0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d7ccc0] or text-[#d7ccc0], 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 #d7ccc0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(215, 204, 192, 0.5), or #d7ccc080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EBE6E0; over black, #6C6660.

Is #d7ccc0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 6.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d7ccc0 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #d7ccc0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFEAE5, #d7ccc0 45%, #4E4032). For more colour, a short hue run to #C3CBAD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d7ccc0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d7ccc0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.