Orange color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around orange. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Orange is #FFA500, vivid orange. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and orange color palettes to copy.

Orange hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#FFA500

HEX: #FFA500
RGB: rgb(255, 165, 0)
HSL: hsl(39, 100%, 50%)
OKLCH: oklch(79.3% 0.171 70.7)
On white: 1.97:1
On black: 10.63:1

Shades of orange

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Orange color values

#FFA500rgb(255, 165, 0)

Color spaces of #ffa500
RGB	255	165	0
HSL	39°	100%	50%
HSV	39°	100%	100%
CMYK	0.00	0.35	1.00	0.00
XYZ	54.6999	48.1758	6.4181
Yxy	48.1758	0.5005	0.4408
CIE-Lab	74.9357	23.9332	78.9498
Hunter Lab	69.4088	19.2075	43.1037
OKLCH	79.3%	0.171	70.7°

#FFA500 is 255 red, 165 green and 0 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #FF9900.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11111111	10100101	00000000
Octal	377	245	0
Decimal	255	165	0
Hex	FF	A5	00

#ffa500 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#FFA500
#E59400
#CC8400
#B27300
#996300
#7F5200
#664200
#4C3100
#322000
#191000
#000000

#ffa500 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#FFA500
#FFAE19
#FFB733
#FFC04C
#FFC966
#FFD27F
#FFDB99
#FFE4B2
#FFEDCC
#FFF6E5
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red60.7%
Green39.3%
Blue0.0%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#FFA500
#85C0FF

Triadic

#FFA500
#00D7D0
#D8A0FF

Analogous

#FFA500
#D3BD00
#FF9F7C

Monochromatic

#704600
#9D6400
#CD8400
#FFA500
#FFDBB3
#FFF7EE
#FFF7EE

#ffa500 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 10.63:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1.97:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #ffa500

color: #ffa500;
background-color: #ffa500;
border: 3px solid #ffa500;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #ffa500;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(255, 165, 0, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(79.3% 0.171 70.7);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Orange on white measures 1.97:1 and on black 10.63:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.41:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: coral, peach, amber, rust, terracotta. See every shade on the colors index.

#D7988D

#FFAD90

#57C2E3

#56A3CD

#DCB0CA

#CC9D6B

#405F4F

#83ABE6

#985F2F

#D79B4F

#946C00

#857B33

#E8D18E

#BFB78F

#9FA03B

#848426

#D79400

#00ACAA

#C686D9

#A38600

#967535

#544A29

#896335

#557EB1

#CAB4A1

#8E7B59

#65979F

#8386AD

#684127

#533120

#36281F

#2D1404

#F0A358

#CE9A43

#5BA3CC

#63A3DC

#574B3D

#7F653C

#8E8779

#B2A785

#4E3336

#6D3432

#2B1009

#53311C

#FF9FBB

#F3A400

#28DEBB

#8895E4

#FF9172

#8FF6CA

#A2BAFF

#FF975C

#FF9984

#7F4421

#F2AB5B

#F0AC20

#9C4600

#B56F16

#C49953

#DFC06B

#C59F8B

#A67F68

#84614D

#554A45

#F7A669

#67C692

#74CBFF

#DD9BFD

#A87B63

#B08867

#D49B58

#A78036

#B48755

#B68E3C

#00AEC0

#625EA1

#C0A271

#B9A457

#9D6F11

#829FBE

#EFDEC4

#CAE6E9

#D8C5EA

#ECE2BC

#EFCCFF

#F69D00

#00CEE3

#EC86E1

#6A4635

#925A39

#C16C32

#D48F51

#7B5336

#AB7032

#BC9B78

#E0C09F