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#eed7bf

a light, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Bisque

Token name suggestion: Meadow Marmalade

RGB
238, 215, 191
HSL
31°, 58%, 84%
CMYK
0, 10, 20, 7
Luminance
0.7054

#eed7bf is a light vivid orange, 31° on the wheel and 1/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.11:1). As text it scores 1.39:1 on white — use #A2672B instead. Nearest name is Bisque, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(31 58% 84%)rgb(238 215 191)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eed7bf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eed7bf
Hue
31°
orange
Saturation
58%
vivid
Lightness
84%
light
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
86%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7054
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
1/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.11:1
Closest name
Bisque
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
15.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.892
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 22.1
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue31° of 360°
Saturation58%
Lightness84%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eed7bf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool1% 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
Red26%
Green69%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#eed7bf
HEX (8-digit)#eed7bfff
RGBrgb(238, 215, 191)
RGBArgba(238, 215, 191, 1)
HSLhsl(31, 58%, 84%)
HSV / HSBhsv(31, 20%, 93%)
HWBhwb(31 75% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 10%, 20%, 7%)
LABlab(87.3 4.2 14.7)
LCHlch(87.3 15.3 74.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.892 0.041 68.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(68.96, 70.54, 59.26)
Decimal15652799
Display P3color(display-p3 0.933 0.843 0.749)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eed7bf;
background-color: #eed7bf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eed7bf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eed7bf] bg-[#eed7bf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eed7bf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.933, green: 0.843, blue: 0.749)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.933, green: 0.843, blue: 0.749, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EED7BF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEED7BF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEED7BF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(191, 215, 238)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(238, 215, 191)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(238, 215, 191)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 238, 215, 191)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9333f, 0.8431f, 0.7490f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{238,215,191}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eed7bf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eed7bf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#65401B, #EEE1D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eed7bf 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: #FBF7F4;
  --brand-100: #F7F0E9;
  --brand-200: #eed7bf;
  --brand-300: #E7C8A6;
  --brand-400: #DCAC7A;
  --brand-500: #D0904E;
  --brand-600: #C17C33;
  --brand-700: #A1672B;
  --brand-800: #815322;
  --brand-900: #5E3E1D;
  --brand-950: #3B2712;
  --brand: #eed7bf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF7F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD7C0;
  --brand-hover: #E6C5A3;
  --brand-pressed: #DFB487;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241C14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE1D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF7F4',
        100: '#F7F0E9',
        200: '#eed7bf',
        300: '#E7C8A6',
        400: '#DCAC7A',
        500: '#D0904E',
        600: '#C17C33',
        700: '#A1672B',
        800: '#815322',
        900: '#5E3E1D',
        950: '#3B2712',
        DEFAULT: '#eed7bf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF7F4,
  '100': #F7F0E9,
  '200': #eed7bf,
  '300': #E7C8A6,
  '400': #DCAC7A,
  '500': #D0904E,
  '600': #C17C33,
  '700': #A1672B,
  '800': #815322,
  '900': #5E3E1D,
  '950': #3B2712,
);
$brand-base: #eed7bf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF7F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7F0E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#eed7bf", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E7C8A6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DCAC7A", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D0904E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C17C33", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A1672B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#815322", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5E3E1D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B2712", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #eed7bf · 15.11:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.39:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.11:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eed7bf as text scores 1.39:1 on white and 15.11:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #65401B at 6.56:1.

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
#A2672B · 4.66:1
AA on white−44% L
#A2672B
The quick fox
#794E20 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−54% L
#794E20
The quick fox
#eed7bf · 15.11:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eed7bf
The quick fox
#eed7bf · 15.11:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eed7bf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #CB843A 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
#eed7bf on white: 1.39:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eed7bf on black: 15.11:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eed7bf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eed7bf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.39:1AaAa
Slate 501.33:1AaAa
Slate 1001.27:1AaAa
Slate 2001.13:1AaAa
Slate 3001.07:1AaAa
Slate 4001.84:1AaAa
Slate 5003.42:1AaAa
Slate 6005.45:1AaAa
Slate 7007.45:1AaAa
Slate 80010.52:1AaAa
Slate 90012.84:1AaAa
Black15.11:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DFD8BE
deuteranopia · #E5DDBF
tritanopia · #F7D2D0

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. #eed7bf is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF7F4
#F7F0E9
#eed7bf
#E7C8A6
#DCAC7A
#D0904E
#C17C33
#A1672B
#815322
#5E3E1D
#3B2712
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FBF7F4Darkest = 950 · #3B2712Text 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 0.010 68.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.016 68.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.025 68.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.032 68.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.038 68.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.041 68.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.041 68.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.039 68.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.034 68.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.029 68.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.023 68.5);
}

Colors that work with #eed7bf

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#FAF7F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDD7C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B744B
Captions on the surface
Accent#2685A6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#65401B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAF2EB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241C14
Dark-mode background
Hover#E6C5A3
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DFB487
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F5E1CC
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 #eed7bf

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 #65401B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #CB843A

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • Weight16/100
  • 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#BFD6EE
Analogous left#EEBFBF
Analogous right#EEEEBF
Split-complement 1#BFEEEE
Split-complement 2#BFBFEE
Triadic 1#BFEED7
Triadic 2#D7BFEE
Tetradic#BFEEBF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°31°

#eed7bf sits at 31°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red93.3%
Green84.3%
Blue74.9%
R · 0–255
238
0xee
G · 0–255
215
0xd7
B · 0–255
191
0xbf

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta9.7%
Yellow19.7%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 36%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eed7bf text on a black background

contrast 15.11:1

Card sample

#eed7bf text on a white background

contrast 1.39:1

Card sample

#eed7bf on grey

1.27:1

#eed7bf on its own surface

1.30:1

#eed7bf on its dark surface

12.07:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eed7bf;
Background color
Panel with #eed7bf background
background-color: #eed7bf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eed7bf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(238, 215, 191, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(238, 215, 191, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eed7bf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eed7bf, #E6EEBF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eed7bf, #DAEEBF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eed7bf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eed7bf;
caret-color: #eed7bf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eed7bf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAF2EB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eed7bf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eed7bf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eed7bf 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(238, 215, 191, 0.5)
rgb(238 215 191 / 50%)
#eed7bf80
hsl(31 58% 84% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eed7bf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eed7bf1a#FDFBF9
20%#eed7bf33#FCF7F2
40%#eed7bf66#F8EFE5
60%#eed7bf99#F5E7D9
80%#eed7bfcc#F1DFCC

Gradients from #eed7bf

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, #FBF5EF, #eed7bf 45%, #65401B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eed7bf, #D7E8A7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eed7bf, #BFD6EE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCF7F3 0%, #eed7bf 45%, #65401B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF7F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F9E7E9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F2F4D7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #65401B 0%, transparent 65%), #eed7bf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eed7bf

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.

#eed7bf 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 15.11:1.

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.

#eed7bf, answered

What color is #eed7bf?

#eed7bf is a light vivid orange, closest to Bisque (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 31° on the hue wheel with 58% saturation and 84% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #eed7bf?

rgb(238, 215, 191) — 238 red, 215 green and 191 blue out of 255, or 93.3% / 84.3% / 74.9% by channel.

What is #eed7bf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(31, 58%, 84%) and hsv(31, 20%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eed7bf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7054 and perceived brightness is 86%, so black text on it reaches 15.11:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eed7bf?

Black. It scores 15.11:1 against #eed7bf, versus 1.39:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eed7bf accessible on a white background?

#eed7bf on white scores 1.39:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #A2672B to reach 4.5:1, or #794E20 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eed7bf?

#BFD6EE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BFEEEE and #BFBFEE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eed7bf?

For interface work: #FAF7F4 as the surface, #EDD7C0 for borders, #9B744B for secondary text, #2685A6 as an accent and #65401B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EEBFBF and #EEEEBF stays calm, while #BFD6EE is the loudest partner.

What is #eed7bf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 10%, 20%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #eed7bf warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 1 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F3E1D3; nudged cooler, #EFC5BE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eed7bf?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 22.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eed7bf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eed7bf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eed7bf] or text-[#eed7bf], 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 #eed7bf with 50% opacity?

rgba(238, 215, 191, 0.5), or #eed7bf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F7EBDF; over black, #776C60.

Is #eed7bf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 15.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eed7bf 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 #eed7bf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FBF5EF, #eed7bf 45%, #65401B). For more colour, a short hue run to #D7E8A7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eed7bf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eed7bf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.