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orange · warm

#fac786

a light, electric orange · warm · closest name: Burly Wood

Token name suggestion: Drift Marmalade

RGB
250, 199, 134
HSL
34°, 92%, 75%
CMYK
0, 20, 46, 2
Luminance
0.6289

#fac786 is a light electric orange, 34° on the wheel and 3/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.58:1). As text it scores 1.55:1 on white — use #AD6407 instead. Nearest name is Burly Wood, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(34 92% 75%)rgb(250 199 134)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fac786 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fac786
Hue
34°
orange
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6289
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
3/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.58:1
Closest name
Burly Wood
ΔE2000 5.8
Chroma
40.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.861
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 12.8
Web-safe
#FFCC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue34° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fac786.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool3% 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
Red32%
Green65%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#fac786
HEX (8-digit)#fac786ff
RGBrgb(250, 199, 134)
RGBArgba(250, 199, 134, 1)
HSLhsl(34, 92%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(34, 46%, 98%)
HWBhwb(34 53% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 20%, 46%, 2%)
LABlab(83.4 10.2 39.4)
LCHlch(83.4 40.6 75.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.861 0.101 72.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(64.15, 62.90, 31.31)
Decimal16435078
Display P3color(display-p3 0.980 0.780 0.525)
Web-safe#FFCC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fac786;
background-color: #fac786;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fac786;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fac786] bg-[#fac786]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fac786;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.980, green: 0.780, blue: 0.525)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.980, green: 0.780, blue: 0.525, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FAC786</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFAC786)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFAC786)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(134, 199, 250)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(250, 199, 134)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(250, 199, 134)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 250, 199, 134)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9804f, 0.7804f, 0.5255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{250,199,134}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fac786 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fac786 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7A4705, #EEE2D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fac786 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: #FDF8F2;
  --brand-100: #FBF1E4;
  --brand-200: #F9E1C3;
  --brand-300: #fac786;
  --brand-400: #F8B45D;
  --brand-500: #F69B27;
  --brand-600: #EB880A;
  --brand-700: #C47108;
  --brand-800: #9D5B06;
  --brand-900: #714309;
  --brand-950: #472A06;
  --brand: #fac786;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD9C0;
  --brand-hover: #F9B764;
  --brand-pressed: #F7A741;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241D14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE2D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF8F2',
        100: '#FBF1E4',
        200: '#F9E1C3',
        300: '#fac786',
        400: '#F8B45D',
        500: '#F69B27',
        600: '#EB880A',
        700: '#C47108',
        800: '#9D5B06',
        900: '#714309',
        950: '#472A06',
        DEFAULT: '#fac786',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF8F2,
  '100': #FBF1E4,
  '200': #F9E1C3,
  '300': #fac786,
  '400': #F8B45D,
  '500': #F69B27,
  '600': #EB880A,
  '700': #C47108,
  '800': #9D5B06,
  '900': #714309,
  '950': #472A06,
);
$brand-base: #fac786;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF8F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBF1E4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F9E1C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#fac786", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F8B45D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F69B27", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EB880A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C47108", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9D5B06", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#714309", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#472A06", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fac786 · 13.58:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.55:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.58:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fac786 as text scores 1.55:1 on white and 13.58:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7A4705 at 4.97:1.

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
#AD6407 · 4.56:1
AA on white−40% L
#AD6407
The quick fox
#814A05 · 7.20:1
AAA on white−49% L
#814A05
The quick fox
#fac786 · 13.58:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fac786
The quick fox
#fac786 · 13.58:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fac786

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #D97D09 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
#fac786 on white: 1.55:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fac786 on black: 13.58:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fac786 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fac786.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.55:1AaAa
Slate 501.48:1AaAa
Slate 1001.41:1AaAa
Slate 2001.25:1AaAa
Slate 3001.04:1AaAa
Slate 4001.66:1AaAa
Slate 5003.08:1AaAa
Slate 6004.90:1AaAa
Slate 7006.70:1AaAa
Slate 8009.46:1AaAa
Slate 90011.54:1AaAa
Black13.58:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DAC981
deuteranopia · #E6D587
tritanopia · #FFBAB7

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. #fac786 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.

#FDF8F2
#FBF1E4
#F9E1C3
#fac786
#F8B45D
#F69B27
#EB880A
#C47108
#9D5B06
#714309
#472A06
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FDF8F2Darkest = 950 · #472A06Text 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 0.025 72.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 72.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.060 72.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.078 72.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.092 72.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.101 72.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.101 72.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.094 72.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.084 72.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.070 72.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.055 72.6);
}

Colors that work with #fac786

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#EDD9C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B784B
Captions on the surface
Accent#038BC9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7A4705
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEF4E7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241D14
Dark-mode background
Hover#F9B764
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F7A741
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F5F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFD195
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #fac786

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 #7A4705
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #D97D09

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
  • Weight25/100
  • 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#86B9FA
Analogous left#FA8D86
Analogous right#F3FA86
Split-complement 1#86F3FA
Split-complement 2#8D86FA
Triadic 1#86FAC7
Triadic 2#C786FA
Tetradic#86FA8D
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°34°

#fac786 sits at 34°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.0%
Green78.0%
Blue52.5%
R · 0–255
250
0xfa
G · 0–255
199
0xc7
B · 0–255
134
0x86

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta20.4%
Yellow46.4%
Key (black)2.0%

Total ink coverage is 69%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fac786 text on a black background

contrast 13.58:1

Card sample

#fac786 text on a white background

contrast 1.55:1

Card sample

#fac786 on grey

1.41:1

#fac786 on its own surface

1.46:1

#fac786 on its dark surface

10.77:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fac786;
Background color
Panel with #fac786 background
background-color: #fac786;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fac786;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(250, 199, 134, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(250, 199, 134, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fac786;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fac786, #E0FA86);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fac786, #C3FA86);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fac786;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fac786;
caret-color: #fac786;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fac786;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEF4E7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fac786;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fac786 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fac786 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(250, 199, 134, 0.5)
rgb(250 199 134 / 50%)
#fac78680
hsl(34 92% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fac786 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fac7861a#FFF9F3
20%#fac78633#FEF4E7
40%#fac78666#FDE9CF
60%#fac78699#FCDDB6
80%#fac786cc#FBD29E

Gradients from #fac786

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, #FCE2C1, #fac786 45%, #7A4705);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fac786, #CCF969);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fac786, #86B9FA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF0DE 0%, #fac786 45%, #7A4705 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%, #FCB7B9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EFFBA3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7A4705 0%, transparent 65%), #fac786;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fac786

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.

#fac786 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 13.58:1.

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.

#fac786, answered

What color is #fac786?

#fac786 is a light electric orange, closest to Burly Wood (ΔE2000 5.8). It sits at 34° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fac786?

rgb(250, 199, 134) — 250 red, 199 green and 134 blue out of 255, or 98% / 78% / 52.5% by channel.

What is #fac786 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(34, 92%, 75%) and hsv(34, 46%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fac786 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6289 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 13.58:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fac786?

Black. It scores 13.58:1 against #fac786, versus 1.55:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fac786 accessible on a white background?

#fac786 on white scores 1.55:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #AD6407 to reach 4.5:1, or #814A05 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fac786?

#86B9FA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #86F3FA and #8D86FA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fac786?

For interface work: #FAF8F4 as the surface, #EDD9C0 for borders, #9B784B for secondary text, #038BC9 as an accent and #7A4705 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FA8D86 and #F3FA86 stays calm, while #86B9FA is the loudest partner.

What is #fac786 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 20%, 46%, 2%). 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 #fac786 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 3 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FBCA9E; nudged cooler, #FBF385.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fac786?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 12.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fac786 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fac786 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fac786] or text-[#fac786], 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 #fac786 with 50% opacity?

rgba(250, 199, 134, 0.5), or #fac78680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FDE3C3; over black, #7D6443.

Is #fac786 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCC99, ΔE2000 3.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fac786 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 #fac786?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FCE2C1, #fac786 45%, #7A4705). For more colour, a short hue run to #CCF969 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fac786 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fac786 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.