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#f7eee1

a pale, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Linen

Token name suggestion: Frost Clay

RGB
247, 238, 225
HSL
36°, 58%, 93%
CMYK
0, 4, 9, 3
Luminance
0.8636

#f7eee1 is a pale vivid orange, 36° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.27:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #9B6D29 instead. Nearest name is Linen, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(36 58% 93%)rgb(247 238 225)Base step 100AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f7eee1 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f7eee1
Hue
36°
orange
Saturation
58%
vivid
Lightness
93%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8636
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
18.27:1
Closest name
Linen
ΔE2000 1.7
Chroma
7.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.953
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 27.1
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue36° of 360°
Saturation58%
Lightness93%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f7eee1.

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
Red23%
Green71%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#f7eee1
HEX (8-digit)#f7eee1ff
RGBrgb(247, 238, 225)
RGBArgba(247, 238, 225, 1)
HSLhsl(36, 58%, 93%)
HSV / HSBhsv(35, 9%, 97%)
HWBhwb(36 88% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 4%, 9%, 3%)
LABlab(94.5 0.8 7.4)
LCHlch(94.5 7.4 83.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.953 0.020 77.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(82.52, 86.36, 83.54)
Decimal16248545
Display P3color(display-p3 0.969 0.933 0.882)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f7eee1;
background-color: #f7eee1;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f7eee1;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f7eee1] bg-[#f7eee1]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f7eee1;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.969, green: 0.933, blue: 0.882)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.969, green: 0.933, blue: 0.882, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F7EEE1</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF7EEE1)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF7EEE1)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(225, 238, 247)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(247, 238, 225)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(247, 238, 225)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 247, 238, 225)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9686f, 0.9333f, 0.8824f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{247,238,225}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f7eee1 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f7eee1 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#65471B, #EEE3D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f7eee1 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: #FBF8F4;
  --brand-100: #f7eee1;
  --brand-200: #EFE1CD;
  --brand-300: #E7CDA6;
  --brand-400: #DCB47A;
  --brand-500: #D09B4E;
  --brand-600: #C18734;
  --brand-700: #A1712B;
  --brand-800: #815A22;
  --brand-900: #5E431D;
  --brand-950: #3B2A12;
  --brand: #f7eee1;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-border: #EDDAC0;
  --brand-hover: #EFDEC5;
  --brand-pressed: #E8CEA8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241E14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE3D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF8F4',
        100: '#f7eee1',
        200: '#EFE1CD',
        300: '#E7CDA6',
        400: '#DCB47A',
        500: '#D09B4E',
        600: '#C18734',
        700: '#A1712B',
        800: '#815A22',
        900: '#5E431D',
        950: '#3B2A12',
        DEFAULT: '#f7eee1',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF8F4,
  '100': #f7eee1,
  '200': #EFE1CD,
  '300': #E7CDA6,
  '400': #DCB47A,
  '500': #D09B4E,
  '600': #C18734,
  '700': #A1712B,
  '800': #815A22,
  '900': #5E431D,
  '950': #3B2A12,
);
$brand-base: #f7eee1;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF8F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#f7eee1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EFE1CD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E7CDA6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DCB47A", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D09B4E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C18734", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A1712B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#815A22", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5E431D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B2A12", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f7eee1 · 18.27:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.15:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.27:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f7eee1 as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.27:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #65471B at 7.40:1.

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
#9B6D29 · 4.55:1
AA on white−54% L
#9B6D29
The quick fox
#73501F · 7.25:1
AAA on white−64% L
#73501F
The quick fox
#f7eee1 · 18.27:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f7eee1
The quick fox
#f7eee1 · 18.27:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f7eee1

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #C38934 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
#f7eee1 on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f7eee1 on black: 18.27:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f7eee1 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f7eee1.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5004.14:1AaAa
Slate 6006.59:1AaAa
Slate 7009.01:1AaAa
Slate 80012.73:1AaAa
Slate 90015.53:1AaAa
Black18.27:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F2EEE0
deuteranopia · #F4F0E1
tritanopia · #FBEBEA

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. #f7eee1 is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF8F4
#f7eee1
#EFE1CD
#E7CDA6
#DCB47A
#D09B4E
#C18734
#A1712B
#815A22
#5E431D
#3B2A12
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #FBF8F4Darkest = 950 · #3B2A12Text step on white = 800
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 77.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.008 77.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.012 77.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.015 77.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.018 77.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.020 77.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.020 77.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.019 77.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.017 77.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.014 77.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.011 77.3);
}

Colors that work with #f7eee1

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#FAF8F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDDAC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B7A4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#267BA6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#65471B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAF4EB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241E14
Dark-mode background
Hover#EFDEC5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#E8CEA8
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F8EDDD
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 #f7eee1

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 #65471B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #C38934

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

Hard to make feel premium, and it collides with the "caution" band in status systems.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight8/100
  • 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#E1EAF7
Analogous left#F7E3E1
Analogous right#F5F7E1
Split-complement 1#E1F5F7
Split-complement 2#E3E1F7
Triadic 1#E1F7EE
Triadic 2#EEE1F7
Tetradic#E1F7E3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°36°

#f7eee1 sits at 36°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.9%
Green93.3%
Blue88.2%
R · 0–255
247
0xf7
G · 0–255
238
0xee
B · 0–255
225
0xe1

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta3.6%
Yellow8.9%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 16%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f7eee1 text on a black background

contrast 18.27:1

Card sample

#f7eee1 text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#f7eee1 on grey

1.05:1

#f7eee1 on its own surface

1.08:1

#f7eee1 on its dark surface

14.38:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f7eee1;
Background color
Panel with #f7eee1 background
background-color: #f7eee1;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f7eee1;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(247, 238, 225, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(247, 238, 225, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f7eee1;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f7eee1, #F1F7E1);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7eee1, #ECF7E1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f7eee1;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f7eee1;
caret-color: #f7eee1;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f7eee1;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAF4EB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f7eee1;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f7eee1 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f7eee1 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(247, 238, 225, 0.5)
rgb(247 238 225 / 50%)
#f7eee180
hsl(36 58% 93% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f7eee1 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f7eee11a#FEFDFC
20%#f7eee133#FDFCF9
40%#f7eee166#FCF8F3
60%#f7eee199#FAF5ED
80%#f7eee1cc#F9F1E7

Gradients from #f7eee1

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, #FBF6EF, #f7eee1 45%, #65471B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f7eee1, #E3F1C9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7eee1, #E1EAF7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCF8F3 0%, #f7eee1 45%, #65471B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF8F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FDFDF9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #65471B 0%, transparent 65%), #f7eee1;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f7eee1

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.

#f7eee1 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

On screens

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.27:1.

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.

#f7eee1, answered

What color is #f7eee1?

#f7eee1 is a pale vivid orange, closest to Linen (ΔE2000 1.7). It sits at 36° on the hue wheel with 58% saturation and 93% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f7eee1?

rgb(247, 238, 225) — 247 red, 238 green and 225 blue out of 255, or 96.9% / 93.3% / 88.2% by channel.

What is #f7eee1 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(36, 58%, 93%) and hsv(35, 9%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f7eee1 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8636 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.27:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f7eee1?

Black. It scores 18.27:1 against #f7eee1, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f7eee1 accessible on a white background?

#f7eee1 on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #9B6D29 to reach 4.5:1, or #73501F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f7eee1?

#E1EAF7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E1F5F7 and #E3E1F7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f7eee1?

For interface work: #FAF8F4 as the surface, #EDDAC0 for borders, #9B7A4B for secondary text, #267BA6 as an accent and #65471B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F7E3E1 and #F5F7E1 stays calm, while #E1EAF7 is the loudest partner.

What is #f7eee1 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 4%, 9%, 3%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f7eee1 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 #F7EBE1; nudged cooler, #F7F6E0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f7eee1?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 27.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f7eee1 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f7eee1 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f7eee1] or text-[#f7eee1], 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 #f7eee1 with 50% opacity?

rgba(247, 238, 225, 0.5), or #f7eee180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBF7F0; over black, #7C7771.

Is #f7eee1 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 13.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f7eee1 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 #f7eee1?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FBF6EF, #f7eee1 45%, #65471B). For more colour, a short hue run to #E3F1C9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f7eee1 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f7eee1 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.