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#fcccb3

a light, electric orange · warm · closest name: Peach Puff

Token name suggestion: Meadow Apricot

RGB
252, 204, 179
HSL
21°, 92%, 85%
CMYK
0, 19, 29, 1
Luminance
0.6714

#fcccb3 is a light electric orange, 21° on the wheel and 5/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.43:1). As text it scores 1.46:1 on white — use #CC4B08 instead. Nearest name is Peach Puff, nearest Tailwind family is amber.

hsl(21 92% 85%)rgb(252 204 179)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fcccb3 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fcccb3
Hue
21°
orange
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
85%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
85%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6714
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
5/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.43:1
Closest name
Peach Puff
ΔE2000 6
Chroma
23.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.881
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
amber
500 · ΔE 21.4
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue21° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness85%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fcccb3.

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
Red31%
Green64%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#fcccb3
HEX (8-digit)#fcccb3ff
RGBrgb(252, 204, 179)
RGBArgba(252, 204, 179, 1)
HSLhsl(21, 92%, 85%)
HSV / HSBhsv(21, 29%, 99%)
HWBhwb(21 70% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 19%, 29%, 1%)
LABlab(85.6 13.4 18.9)
LCHlch(85.6 23.2 54.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.881 0.064 49.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(69.88, 67.14, 51.92)
Decimal16567475
Display P3color(display-p3 0.988 0.800 0.702)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fcccb3;
background-color: #fcccb3;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fcccb3;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fcccb3] bg-[#fcccb3]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fcccb3;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.988, green: 0.800, blue: 0.702)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.800, blue: 0.702, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FCCCB3</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFCCCB3)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFCCCB3)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(179, 204, 252)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(252, 204, 179)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(252, 204, 179)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 252, 204, 179)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9882f, 0.8000f, 0.7020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{252,204,179}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fcccb3 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fcccb3 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7B2D05, #EEDCD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fcccb3 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: #FDF6F2;
  --brand-100: #FBECE4;
  --brand-200: #fcccb3;
  --brand-300: #FBB693;
  --brand-400: #F9925D;
  --brand-500: #F66E27;
  --brand-600: #EB5709;
  --brand-700: #C44808;
  --brand-800: #9D3A06;
  --brand-900: #712D09;
  --brand-950: #471C06;
  --brand: #fcccb3;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCFC0;
  --brand-hover: #FBB591;
  --brand-pressed: #F99E6E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241914;
    --brand-ink: #EEDCD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF6F2',
        100: '#FBECE4',
        200: '#fcccb3',
        300: '#FBB693',
        400: '#F9925D',
        500: '#F66E27',
        600: '#EB5709',
        700: '#C44808',
        800: '#9D3A06',
        900: '#712D09',
        950: '#471C06',
        DEFAULT: '#fcccb3',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF6F2,
  '100': #FBECE4,
  '200': #fcccb3,
  '300': #FBB693,
  '400': #F9925D,
  '500': #F66E27,
  '600': #EB5709,
  '700': #C44808,
  '800': #9D3A06,
  '900': #712D09,
  '950': #471C06,
);
$brand-base: #fcccb3;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF6F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBECE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#fcccb3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FBB693", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F9925D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F66E27", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EB5709", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C44808", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9D3A06", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#712D09", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#471C06", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fcccb3 · 14.43:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.46:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.43:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fcccb3 as text scores 1.46:1 on white and 14.43:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7B2D05 at 6.50:1.

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
#CC4B08 · 4.59:1
AA on white−43% L
#CC4B08
The quick fox
#9B3906 · 7.04:1
AAA on white−53% L
#9B3906
The quick fox
#fcccb3 · 14.43:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fcccb3
The quick fox
#fcccb3 · 14.43:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fcccb3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F66920 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
#fcccb3 on white: 1.46:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fcccb3 on black: 14.43:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fcccb3 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fcccb3.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.46:1AaAa
Slate 501.39:1AaAa
Slate 1001.33:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.76:1AaAa
Slate 5003.27:1AaAa
Slate 6005.21:1AaAa
Slate 7007.11:1AaAa
Slate 80010.05:1AaAa
Slate 90012.26:1AaAa
Black14.43:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D9D0B1
deuteranopia · #E4DAB3
tritanopia · #FFC4C5

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. #fcccb3 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.

#FDF6F2
#FBECE4
#fcccb3
#FBB693
#F9925D
#F66E27
#EB5709
#C44808
#9D3A06
#712D09
#471C06
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FDF6F2Darkest = 950 · #471C06Text 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 0.016 49.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.026 49.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.039 49.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.050 49.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.059 49.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.064 49.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.064 49.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.060 49.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.054 49.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.045 49.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.035 49.0);
}

Colors that work with #fcccb3

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#EDCFC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B664B
Captions on the surface
Accent#03B7C9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7B2D05
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEEFE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241914
Dark-mode background
Hover#FBB591
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F99E6E
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFD8C4
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 #fcccb3

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 #7B2D05
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F66920

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
  • 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#B3E3FC
Analogous left#FCB3BF
Analogous right#FCF0B3
Split-complement 1#B3FCF0
Split-complement 2#B3BFFC
Triadic 1#B3FCCC
Triadic 2#CCB3FC
Tetradic#BFFCB3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°21°

#fcccb3 sits at 21°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.8%
Green80.0%
Blue70.2%
R · 0–255
252
0xfc
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
179
0xb3

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta19.0%
Yellow29.0%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 49%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fcccb3 text on a black background

contrast 14.43:1

Card sample

#fcccb3 text on a white background

contrast 1.46:1

Card sample

#fcccb3 on grey

1.33:1

#fcccb3 on its own surface

1.36:1

#fcccb3 on its dark surface

11.79:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fcccb3;
Background color
Panel with #fcccb3 background
background-color: #fcccb3;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fcccb3;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(252, 204, 179, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(252, 204, 179, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fcccb3;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fcccb3, #FBFCB3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fcccb3, #E9FCB3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fcccb3;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fcccb3;
caret-color: #fcccb3;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fcccb3;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEEFE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fcccb3;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fcccb3 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fcccb3 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(252, 204, 179, 0.5)
rgb(252 204 179 / 50%)
#fcccb380
hsl(21 92% 85% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fcccb3 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fcccb31a#FFFAF7
20%#fcccb333#FEF5F0
40%#fcccb366#FEEBE1
60%#fcccb399#FDE0D1
80%#fcccb3cc#FDD6C2

Gradients from #fcccb3

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, #FEF2EB, #fcccb3 45%, #7B2D05);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fcccb3, #F2FB96);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fcccb3, #B3E3FC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF5F0 0%, #fcccb3 45%, #7B2D05 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%, #FEE4EA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FDFAD0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7B2D05 0%, transparent 65%), #fcccb3;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fcccb3

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.

#fcccb3 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 14.43:1.

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.

#fcccb3, answered

What color is #fcccb3?

#fcccb3 is a light electric orange, closest to Peach Puff (ΔE2000 6). It sits at 21° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 85% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fcccb3?

rgb(252, 204, 179) — 252 red, 204 green and 179 blue out of 255, or 98.8% / 80% / 70.2% by channel.

What is #fcccb3 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(21, 92%, 85%) and hsv(21, 29%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fcccb3 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6714 and perceived brightness is 85%, so black text on it reaches 14.43:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fcccb3?

Black. It scores 14.43:1 against #fcccb3, versus 1.46:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fcccb3 accessible on a white background?

#fcccb3 on white scores 1.46:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CC4B08 to reach 4.5:1, or #9B3906 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fcccb3?

#B3E3FC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B3FCF0 and #B3BFFC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fcccb3?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCFC0 for borders, #9B664B for secondary text, #03B7C9 as an accent and #7B2D05 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FCB3BF and #FCF0B3 stays calm, while #B3E3FC is the loudest partner.

What is #fcccb3 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 19%, 29%, 1%). 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 #fcccb3 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 #FDE0CB; nudged cooler, #FDB2B4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fcccb3?

The amber family — its 500 step is #f59e0b, ΔE2000 21.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fcccb3 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fcccb3 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fcccb3] or text-[#fcccb3], 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 #fcccb3 with 50% opacity?

rgba(252, 204, 179, 0.5), or #fcccb380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FEE6D9; over black, #7E665A.

Is #fcccb3 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 10.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fcccb3 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 #fcccb3?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEF2EB, #fcccb3 45%, #7B2D05). For more colour, a short hue run to #F2FB96 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fcccb3 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fcccb3 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.