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#feeae3

a pale, electric orange · warm · closest name: Misty Rose

Token name suggestion: Mist Clay

RGB
254, 234, 227
HSL
16°, 93%, 94%
CMYK
0, 8, 11, 0
Luminance
0.8546

#feeae3 is a pale electric orange, 16° on the wheel and 8/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.09:1). As text it scores 1.16:1 on white — use #D53D08 instead. Nearest name is Misty Rose, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(16 93% 94%)rgb(254 234 227)Base step 100AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #feeae3 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#feeae3
Hue
16°
orange
Saturation
93%
electric
Lightness
94%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8546
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
8/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.09:1
Closest name
Misty Rose
ΔE2000 3.6
Chroma
8.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.951
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 29.2
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue16° of 360°
Saturation93%
Lightness94%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #feeae3.

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
Red25%
Green69%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#feeae3
HEX (8-digit)#feeae3ff
RGBrgb(254, 234, 227)
RGBArgba(254, 234, 227, 1)
HSLhsl(16, 93%, 94%)
HSV / HSBhsv(16, 11%, 100%)
HWBhwb(16 89% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 8%, 11%, 0%)
LABlab(94.1 5.6 5.8)
LCHlch(94.1 8.1 46.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.951 0.024 40.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(84.16, 85.46, 84.72)
Decimal16706275
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 0.918 0.890)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #feeae3;
background-color: #feeae3;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #feeae3;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#feeae3] bg-[#feeae3]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #feeae3;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 0.918, blue: 0.890)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.918, blue: 0.890, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FEEAE3</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFEEAE3)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFEEAE3)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(227, 234, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 234, 227)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 234, 227)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 234, 227)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 0.9176f, 0.8902f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,234,227}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #feeae3 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #feeae3 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7B2304, #EEDAD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #feeae3 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: #feeae3;
  --brand-200: #F9D1C2;
  --brand-300: #FBAE93;
  --brand-400: #F9855D;
  --brand-500: #F75D26;
  --brand-600: #EC4408;
  --brand-700: #C53807;
  --brand-800: #9E2D06;
  --brand-900: #722409;
  --brand-950: #471705;
  --brand: #feeae3;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCBC0;
  --brand-hover: #FDD0C0;
  --brand-pressed: #FCB69E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241814;
    --brand-ink: #EEDAD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF5F2',
        100: '#feeae3',
        200: '#F9D1C2',
        300: '#FBAE93',
        400: '#F9855D',
        500: '#F75D26',
        600: '#EC4408',
        700: '#C53807',
        800: '#9E2D06',
        900: '#722409',
        950: '#471705',
        DEFAULT: '#feeae3',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF5F2,
  '100': #feeae3,
  '200': #F9D1C2,
  '300': #FBAE93,
  '400': #F9855D,
  '500': #F75D26,
  '600': #EC4408,
  '700': #C53807,
  '800': #9E2D06,
  '900': #722409,
  '950': #471705,
);
$brand-base: #feeae3;
$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": "#feeae3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F9D1C2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FBAE93", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F9855D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F75D26", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EC4408", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C53807", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9E2D06", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#722409", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#471705", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #feeae3 · 18.09:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.16:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.09:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #feeae3 as text scores 1.16:1 on white and 18.09:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7B2304 at 8.68:1.

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
#D53D08 · 4.67:1
AA on white−51% L
#D53D08
The quick fox
#A42F06 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−61% L
#A42F06
The quick fox
#feeae3 · 18.09:1
AA on blackalready passes
#feeae3
The quick fox
#feeae3 · 18.09:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#feeae3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F86532 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
#feeae3 on white: 1.16:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#feeae3 on black: 18.09:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #feeae3 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #feeae3.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.16:1AaAa
Slate 501.11:1AaAa
Slate 1001.06:1AaAa
Slate 2001.06:1AaAa
Slate 3001.28:1AaAa
Slate 4002.21:1AaAa
Slate 5004.10:1AaAa
Slate 6006.53:1AaAa
Slate 7008.92:1AaAa
Slate 80012.60:1AaAa
Slate 90015.38:1AaAa
Black18.09:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFECE3
deuteranopia · #F3F0E3
tritanopia · #FFE7E8

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. #feeae3 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.

#FDF5F2
#feeae3
#F9D1C2
#FBAE93
#F9855D
#F75D26
#EC4408
#C53807
#9E2D06
#722409
#471705
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #FDF5F2Darkest = 950 · #471705Text 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 0.006 40.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.010 40.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.014 40.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.019 40.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.022 40.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.024 40.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.024 40.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.022 40.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.020 40.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.017 40.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.013 40.3);
}

Colors that work with #feeae3

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#EDCBC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B5F4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#00C5CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7B2304
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEEDE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241814
Dark-mode background
Hover#FDD0C0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FCB69E
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFE1D6
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 #feeae3

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 #7B2304
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F86532

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight6/100
  • 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#E3F7FE
Analogous left#FEE3E9
Analogous right#FEF8E3
Split-complement 1#E3FEF8
Split-complement 2#E3E9FE
Triadic 1#E3FEEA
Triadic 2#EAE3FE
Tetradic#E9FEE3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°16°

#feeae3 sits at 16°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green91.8%
Blue89.0%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
234
0xea
B · 0–255
227
0xe3

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta7.9%
Yellow10.6%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 19%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#feeae3 text on a black background

contrast 18.09:1

Card sample

#feeae3 text on a white background

contrast 1.16:1

Card sample

#feeae3 on grey

1.06:1

#feeae3 on its own surface

1.08:1

#feeae3 on its dark surface

14.88:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #feeae3;
Background color
Panel with #feeae3 background
background-color: #feeae3;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #feeae3;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 234, 227, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 234, 227, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #feeae3;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #feeae3, #FEFCE3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feeae3, #F9FEE3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #feeae3;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #feeae3;
caret-color: #feeae3;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #feeae3;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEEDE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #feeae3;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#feeae3 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #feeae3 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, 234, 227, 0.5)
rgb(254 234 227 / 50%)
#feeae380
hsl(16 93% 94% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #feeae3 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#feeae31a#FFFDFC
20%#feeae333#FFFBF9
40%#feeae366#FFF7F4
60%#feeae399#FEF2EE
80%#feeae3cc#FEEEE9

Gradients from #feeae3

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, #FEF0EB, #feeae3 45%, #7B2304);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #feeae3, #FCFDC5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feeae3, #E3F7FE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF4F0 0%, #feeae3 45%, #7B2304 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7B2304 0%, transparent 65%), #feeae3;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #feeae3

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.

#feeae3 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

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 18.09:1.

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.

#feeae3, answered

What color is #feeae3?

#feeae3 is a pale electric orange, closest to Misty Rose (ΔE2000 3.6). It sits at 16° on the hue wheel with 93% saturation and 94% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #feeae3?

rgb(254, 234, 227) — 254 red, 234 green and 227 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 91.8% / 89% by channel.

What is #feeae3 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(16, 93%, 94%) and hsv(16, 11%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #feeae3 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8546 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.09:1.

Should I use black or white text on #feeae3?

Black. It scores 18.09:1 against #feeae3, versus 1.16:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #feeae3 accessible on a white background?

#feeae3 on white scores 1.16:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D53D08 to reach 4.5:1, or #A42F06 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #feeae3?

#E3F7FE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E3FEF8 and #E3E9FE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #feeae3?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCBC0 for borders, #9B5F4B for secondary text, #00C5CC as an accent and #7B2304 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FEE3E9 and #FEF8E3 stays calm, while #E3F7FE is the loudest partner.

What is #feeae3 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 8%, 11%, 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 #feeae3 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 #FEEEE3; nudged cooler, #FEE3E6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #feeae3?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 29.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #feeae3 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #feeae3 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#feeae3] or text-[#feeae3], 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 #feeae3 with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 234, 227, 0.5), or #feeae380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFF5F1; over black, #7F7572.

Is #feeae3 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 20 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #feeae3 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 #feeae3?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEF0EB, #feeae3 45%, #7B2304). For more colour, a short hue run to #FCFDC5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #feeae3 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #feeae3 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.