Orange color: #ffa500
The CSS keyword orange is #ffa500, rgb(255, 165, 0) or hsl(39, 100%, 50%). Its codes to copy, 50–950 tint scale, harmonies and contrast on white and black.
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About Orange
Orange is a light orange. Its hue sits at 71° in OKLCH and 39° in HSL — the two wheels are spaced differently, which is why the numbers disagree.
The keyword orange was the only keyword CSS 2.1 added to the sixteen HTML colors, which made it the seventeenth basic color name.
Orange tint scale, 50 to 950
Eleven steps at fixed perceived lightness, in OKLCH, holding orange’s own hue from end to end. The keyword itself falls closest to step 300 (#f6ad4c), the one outlined; step 500 is #b87600.
Harmonies built on Orange
Hue angles measured in OKLCH, so every accent keeps orange’s perceived lightness. Its complement is #85c0ff, closest to the named color lightskyblue.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-complementary
Orange on white and on black
Black text reads better on orange (10.63:1). As a text color it belongs on a dark background: on white it only reaches 1.97:1, under the 4.5:1 that body text needs, while on black it reaches 10.63:1. AA asks 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text; AAA asks 7:1.
Named colors close to Orange
Open orange in the full tools
- Open in Color Converter — convert it to any other notation.
- Open in Palette Generator — export its scale as --orange-50 … --orange-950 tokens.
- Open in Color Harmonies — turn the wheel and compare OKLCH with HSL.
- Open in Contrast Checker — test it against any background, with the closest passing shade.
- Open in Color System Generator — derive a light and dark token set from it.
Or browse every named color from the color converter.