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#feba63

a light, electric orange · warm · closest name: Sandy Brown

Token name suggestion: Meadow Clay

RGB
254, 186, 99
HSL
34°, 99%, 69%
CMYK
0, 27, 61, 0
Luminance
0.5709

#feba63 is a light electric orange, 34° on the wheel and 3/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.42:1). As text it scores 1.69:1 on white — use #AD6201 instead. Nearest name is Sandy Brown, nearest Tailwind family is amber.

hsl(34 99% 69%)rgb(254 186 99)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #feba63 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#feba63
Hue
34°
orange
Saturation
99%
electric
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
79%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5709
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
3/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
12.42:1
Closest name
Sandy Brown
ΔE2000 7.6
Chroma
55.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.835
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
amber
500 · ΔE 8.3
Web-safe
#FFCC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue34° of 360°
Saturation99%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #feba63.

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
Red37%
Green62%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#feba63
HEX (8-digit)#feba63ff
RGBrgb(254, 186, 99)
RGBArgba(254, 186, 99, 1)
HSLhsl(34, 99%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(34, 61%, 100%)
HWBhwb(34 39% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 27%, 61%, 0%)
LABlab(80.2 15.8 52.9)
LCHlch(80.2 55.2 73.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.835 0.130 71.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(60.69, 57.09, 19.63)
Decimal16693859
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 0.729 0.388)
Web-safe#FFCC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #feba63;
background-color: #feba63;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #feba63;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#feba63] bg-[#feba63]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #feba63;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 0.729, blue: 0.388)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.729, blue: 0.388, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FEBA63</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFEBA63)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFEBA63)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(99, 186, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 186, 99)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 186, 99)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 186, 99)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 0.7294f, 0.3882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,186,99}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #feba63 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #feba63 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7F4801, #EEE2D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #feba63 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: #FEF8F1;
  --brand-100: #FCF1E3;
  --brand-200: #FBE1C0;
  --brand-300: #FECE90;
  --brand-400: #feba63;
  --brand-500: #FE9C20;
  --brand-600: #F38902;
  --brand-700: #CB7201;
  --brand-800: #A25C01;
  --brand-900: #754406;
  --brand-950: #492B04;
  --brand: #feba63;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF8F4;
  --brand-border: #EDD9C0;
  --brand-hover: #FEAA3F;
  --brand-pressed: #FE9B1C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241D14;
    --brand-ink: #EEE2D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FEF8F1',
        100: '#FCF1E3',
        200: '#FBE1C0',
        300: '#FECE90',
        400: '#feba63',
        500: '#FE9C20',
        600: '#F38902',
        700: '#CB7201',
        800: '#A25C01',
        900: '#754406',
        950: '#492B04',
        DEFAULT: '#feba63',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FEF8F1,
  '100': #FCF1E3,
  '200': #FBE1C0,
  '300': #FECE90,
  '400': #feba63,
  '500': #FE9C20,
  '600': #F38902,
  '700': #CB7201,
  '800': #A25C01,
  '900': #754406,
  '950': #492B04,
);
$brand-base: #feba63;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FEF8F1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCF1E3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBE1C0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FECE90", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#feba63", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FE9C20", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F38902", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CB7201", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A25C01", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#754406", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#492B04", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #feba63 · 12.42:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.69:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.42:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #feba63 as text scores 1.69:1 on white and 12.42:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7F4801 at 4.39:1.

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
#AD6201 · 4.64:1
AA on white−35% L
#AD6201
The quick fox
#804801 · 7.38:1
AAA on white−44% L
#804801
The quick fox
#feba63 · 12.42:1
AA on blackalready passes
#feba63
The quick fox
#feba63 · 12.42:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#feba63

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DB7C01 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
#feba63 on white: 1.69:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#feba63 on black: 12.42:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #feba63 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #feba63.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.69:1AaAa
Slate 501.62:1AaAa
Slate 1001.54:1AaAa
Slate 2001.37:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.52:1AaAa
Slate 5002.81:1AaAa
Slate 6004.48:1AaAa
Slate 7006.12:1AaAa
Slate 8008.65:1AaAa
Slate 90010.56:1AaAa
Black12.42:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D2BE5B
deuteranopia · #E2CD65
tritanopia · #FFA9A6

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. #feba63 is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FEF8F1
#FCF1E3
#FBE1C0
#FECE90
#feba63
#FE9C20
#F38902
#CB7201
#A25C01
#754406
#492B04
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FEF8F1Darkest = 950 · #492B04Text 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 0.033 71.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 71.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.078 71.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.101 71.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.120 71.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.130 71.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.130 71.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.122 71.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.109 71.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.091 71.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.072 71.1);
}

Colors that work with #feba63

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#008CCC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7F4801
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFF4E6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241D14
Dark-mode background
Hover#FEAA3F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FE9B1C
Two steps down
Disabled#EDE9E4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFC376
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 #feba63

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 #7F4801
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #DB7C01

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
  • Weight31/100
  • 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#63A7FE
Analogous left#FE6D63
Analogous right#F4FE63
Split-complement 1#63F4FE
Split-complement 2#6D63FE
Triadic 1#63FEBA
Triadic 2#BA63FE
Tetradic#63FE6D
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°34°

#feba63 sits at 34°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green72.9%
Blue38.8%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
186
0xba
B · 0–255
99
0x63

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta26.8%
Yellow61.0%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 88%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#feba63 text on a black background

contrast 12.42:1

Card sample

#feba63 text on a white background

contrast 1.69:1

Card sample

#feba63 on grey

1.54:1

#feba63 on its own surface

1.59:1

#feba63 on its dark surface

9.85:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #feba63;
Background color
Panel with #feba63 background
background-color: #feba63;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #feba63;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 186, 99, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 186, 99, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #feba63;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #feba63, #DBFE63);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feba63, #B4FE63);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #feba63;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #feba63;
caret-color: #feba63;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #feba63;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFF4E6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #feba63;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#feba63 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #feba63 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(254, 186, 99, 0.5)
rgb(254 186 99 / 50%)
#feba6380
hsl(34 99% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #feba63 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#feba631a#FFF8EF
20%#feba6333#FFF1E0
40%#feba6366#FFE3C1
60%#feba6399#FED6A1
80%#feba63cc#FEC882

Gradients from #feba63

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, #FED5A0, #feba63 45%, #7F4801);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #feba63, #C4FE45);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feba63, #63A7FE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFE2BE 0%, #feba63 45%, #7F4801 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%, #FE9698 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #ECFE81 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7F4801 0%, transparent 65%), #feba63;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #feba63

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.

#feba63 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 12.42:1.

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.

#feba63, answered

What color is #feba63?

#feba63 is a light electric orange, closest to Sandy Brown (ΔE2000 7.6). It sits at 34° on the hue wheel with 99% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #feba63?

rgb(254, 186, 99) — 254 red, 186 green and 99 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 72.9% / 38.8% by channel.

What is #feba63 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(34, 99%, 69%) and hsv(34, 61%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #feba63 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5709 and perceived brightness is 79%, so black text on it reaches 12.42:1.

Should I use black or white text on #feba63?

Black. It scores 12.42:1 against #feba63, versus 1.69:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #feba63 accessible on a white background?

#feba63 on white scores 1.69:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #AD6201 to reach 4.5:1, or #804801 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #feba63?

#63A7FE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #63F4FE and #6D63FE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #feba63?

For interface work: #FAF8F4 as the surface, #EDD9C0 for borders, #9B784B for secondary text, #008CCC as an accent and #7F4801 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FE6D63 and #F4FE63 stays calm, while #63A7FE is the loudest partner.

What is #feba63 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 27%, 61%, 0%). 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 #feba63 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 #FEBB7C; nudged cooler, #FFF462.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #feba63?

The amber family — its 500 step is #f59e0b, ΔE2000 8.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #feba63 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #feba63 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#feba63] or text-[#feba63], 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 #feba63 with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 186, 99, 0.5), or #feba6380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFDDB1; over black, #7F5D32.

Is #feba63 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCC66, ΔE2000 7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #feba63 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 #feba63?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FED5A0, #feba63 45%, #7F4801). For more colour, a short hue run to #C4FE45 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #feba63 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #feba63 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.