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#fbc1ac

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Amber

RGB
251, 193, 172
HSL
16°, 91%, 83%
CMYK
0, 23, 32, 2
Luminance
0.6163

#fbc1ac is a light electric orange, 16° on the wheel and 8/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.33:1). As text it scores 1.58:1 on white — use #D6400A instead. Nearest name is Light Salmon, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(16 91% 83%)rgb(251 193 172)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fbc1ac is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fbc1ac
Hue
16°
orange
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
83%
light
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6163
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
8/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.33:1
Closest name
Light Salmon
ΔE2000 9.8
Chroma
25.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.858
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 22.2
Web-safe
#FFCC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue16° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness83%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fbc1ac.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool8% 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
Red33%
Green62%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#fbc1ac
HEX (8-digit)#fbc1acff
RGBrgb(251, 193, 172)
RGBArgba(251, 193, 172, 1)
HSLhsl(16, 91%, 83%)
HSV / HSBhsv(16, 31%, 98%)
HWBhwb(16 67% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 23%, 32%, 2%)
LABlab(82.7 17.9 18.6)
LCHlch(82.7 25.8 46.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.858 0.073 40.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(66.30, 61.63, 47.43)
Decimal16499116
Display P3color(display-p3 0.984 0.757 0.675)
Web-safe#FFCC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fbc1ac;
background-color: #fbc1ac;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fbc1ac;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fbc1ac] bg-[#fbc1ac]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fbc1ac;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.984, green: 0.757, blue: 0.675)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.984, green: 0.757, blue: 0.675, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FBC1AC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFBC1AC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFBC1AC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(172, 193, 251)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(251, 193, 172)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(251, 193, 172)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 251, 193, 172)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9843f, 0.7569f, 0.6745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{251,193,172}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fbc1ac 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fbc1ac 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7A2506, #EEDAD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fbc1ac 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: #FDF5F2;
  --brand-100: #FBEAE5;
  --brand-200: #fbc1ac;
  --brand-300: #FAAF94;
  --brand-400: #F7875E;
  --brand-500: #F55F29;
  --brand-600: #EA460B;
  --brand-700: #C33A09;
  --brand-800: #9C2F08;
  --brand-900: #70250A;
  --brand-950: #461706;
  --brand: #fbc1ac;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCCC0;
  --brand-hover: #F9A78A;
  --brand-pressed: #F88E68;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241814;
    --brand-ink: #EEDAD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF5F2',
        100: '#FBEAE5',
        200: '#fbc1ac',
        300: '#FAAF94',
        400: '#F7875E',
        500: '#F55F29',
        600: '#EA460B',
        700: '#C33A09',
        800: '#9C2F08',
        900: '#70250A',
        950: '#461706',
        DEFAULT: '#fbc1ac',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF5F2,
  '100': #FBEAE5,
  '200': #fbc1ac,
  '300': #FAAF94,
  '400': #F7875E,
  '500': #F55F29,
  '600': #EA460B,
  '700': #C33A09,
  '800': #9C2F08,
  '900': #70250A,
  '950': #461706,
);
$brand-base: #fbc1ac;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF5F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBEAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#fbc1ac", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FAAF94", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F7875E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F55F29", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EA460B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C33A09", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9C2F08", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#70250A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#461706", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fbc1ac · 13.33:1
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 · 13.33:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fbc1ac as text scores 1.58:1 on white and 13.33:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7A2506 at 6.36:1.

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
#D6400A · 4.57:1
AA on white−39% L
#D6400A
The quick fox
#A03008 · 7.19:1
AAA on white−50% L
#A03008
The quick fox
#fbc1ac · 13.33:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fbc1ac
The quick fox
#fbc1ac · 13.33:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fbc1ac

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F56937 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
#fbc1ac on white: 1.58:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fbc1ac on black: 13.33:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fbc1ac as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fbc1ac.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.58:1AaAa
Slate 501.51:1AaAa
Slate 1001.44:1AaAa
Slate 2001.28:1AaAa
Slate 3001.06:1AaAa
Slate 4001.63:1AaAa
Slate 5003.02:1AaAa
Slate 6004.81:1AaAa
Slate 7006.57:1AaAa
Slate 8009.28:1AaAa
Slate 90011.33:1AaAa
Black13.33:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CFC7AA
deuteranopia · #DCD3AC
tritanopia · #FFB8BB

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. #fbc1ac 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.

#FDF5F2
#FBEAE5
#fbc1ac
#FAAF94
#F7875E
#F55F29
#EA460B
#C33A09
#9C2F08
#70250A
#461706
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FDF5F2Darkest = 950 · #461706Text 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 0.018 40.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.029 40.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.044 40.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.057 40.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.067 40.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.073 40.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.073 40.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.069 40.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.061 40.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.051 40.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.040 40.8);
}

Colors that work with #fbc1ac

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#EDCCC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B604B
Captions on the surface
Accent#05C3C7
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7A2506
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEEDE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241814
Dark-mode background
Hover#F9A78A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F88E68
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFCEBC
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 #fbc1ac

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 #7A2506
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F56937

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
  • Weight17/100
  • 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#ACE6FB
Analogous left#FBACBE
Analogous right#FBE8AC
Split-complement 1#ACFBE8
Split-complement 2#ACBEFB
Triadic 1#ACFBC1
Triadic 2#C1ACFB
Tetradic#BEFBAC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°16°

#fbc1ac sits at 16°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.4%
Green75.7%
Blue67.5%
R · 0–255
251
0xfb
G · 0–255
193
0xc1
B · 0–255
172
0xac

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta23.1%
Yellow31.5%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 56%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fbc1ac text on a black background

contrast 13.33:1

Card sample

#fbc1ac text on a white background

contrast 1.58:1

Card sample

#fbc1ac on grey

1.44:1

#fbc1ac on its own surface

1.47:1

#fbc1ac on its dark surface

10.96:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fbc1ac;
Background color
Panel with #fbc1ac background
background-color: #fbc1ac;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fbc1ac;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(251, 193, 172, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(251, 193, 172, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fbc1ac;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fbc1ac, #FBF6AC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fbc1ac, #EDFBAC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fbc1ac;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fbc1ac;
caret-color: #fbc1ac;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fbc1ac;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEEDE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fbc1ac;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fbc1ac 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fbc1ac 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(251, 193, 172, 0.5)
rgb(251 193 172 / 50%)
#fbc1ac80
hsl(16 91% 83% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fbc1ac 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fbc1ac1a#FFF9F7
20%#fbc1ac33#FEF3EE
40%#fbc1ac66#FDE6DE
60%#fbc1ac99#FDDACD
80%#fbc1accc#FCCDBD

Gradients from #fbc1ac

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, #FEECE6, #fbc1ac 45%, #7A2506);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fbc1ac, #F8FA8F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fbc1ac, #ACE6FB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF4F0 0%, #fbc1ac 45%, #7A2506 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%, #FDDCE7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FCF5C9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7A2506 0%, transparent 65%), #fbc1ac;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fbc1ac

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.

#fbc1ac 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 13.33:1.

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.

#fbc1ac, answered

What color is #fbc1ac?

#fbc1ac is a light electric orange, closest to Light Salmon (ΔE2000 9.8). It sits at 16° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 83% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fbc1ac?

rgb(251, 193, 172) — 251 red, 193 green and 172 blue out of 255, or 98.4% / 75.7% / 67.5% by channel.

What is #fbc1ac in HSL and HSV?

hsl(16, 91%, 83%) and hsv(16, 31%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fbc1ac a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6163 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 13.33:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fbc1ac?

Black. It scores 13.33:1 against #fbc1ac, versus 1.58:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fbc1ac accessible on a white background?

#fbc1ac on white scores 1.58:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D6400A to reach 4.5:1, or #A03008 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fbc1ac?

#ACE6FB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #ACFBE8 and #ACBEFB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fbc1ac?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCCC0 for borders, #9B604B for secondary text, #05C3C7 as an accent and #7A2506 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FBACBE and #FBE8AC stays calm, while #ACE6FB is the loudest partner.

What is #fbc1ac in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 23%, 32%, 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 #fbc1ac warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 8 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FBCAAC; nudged cooler, #FCABB3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fbc1ac?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 22.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fbc1ac as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fbc1ac in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fbc1ac] or text-[#fbc1ac], 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 #fbc1ac with 50% opacity?

rgba(251, 193, 172, 0.5), or #fbc1ac80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FDE0D6; over black, #7E6156.

Is #fbc1ac a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCC99, ΔE2000 10.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fbc1ac 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 #fbc1ac?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEECE6, #fbc1ac 45%, #7A2506). For more colour, a short hue run to #F8FA8F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fbc1ac in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fbc1ac at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.