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Apricot Color Codes

Apricot is a light, vivid red-orange with the hex code #FBCEB1, RGB values of 251, 206, 177 and an HSL value of hsl(24, 90%, 84%).

HEX#FBCEB1
RGB251, 206, 177
HSLhsl(24, 90%, 84%)
HSV24°, 29%, 98%
CMYK0%, 18%, 29%, 2%
LAB85.92, 11.77, 20.40
CIELCHuv85.92, 40.47, 41.22°
Nearest Pantone
PMS 474 C ΔE 3.3 · approximate
Nearest CSS name
peachpuff ΔE 5.1

Source Wikipedia, List of colors (cites Maerz and Paul)

Apricot Color Hex Code

The Apricot color hex code is #FBCEB1. Those six digits are three pairs, FB for red, CE for green and B1 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FBCEB1

Apricot Color RGB Code

The Apricot RGB code is rgb(251, 206, 177). Red carries the most light at 251 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(251, 206, 177)

Apricot Color HSV Code

The Apricot HSV code is 24°, 29%, 98%. Read it as a hue of 24 degrees, 29% saturation and 98% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

24°, 29%, 98%

Apricot Color CIELChuv Code

The Apricot CIELCHuv code is 85.92, 40.47, 41.22°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 86 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 40 is how far it sits from grey.

85.92, 40.47, 41.22°

Tonal scale

What are Apricot Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

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Palettes

What are Apricot Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FBCEB1. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #B1DEFB, a light, vivid azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#FBB1B9 and #FBF3B1 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#B1FBCE and #CEB1FB complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #B1FBF3 and #B1B9FB. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #B1DEFB, and #B9FBB1 with #F3B1FB. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Contrast checker: is Apricot accessible?

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.44:1

1.44

contrast ratio on white background

ElementAAAAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 Fails Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 Fails Fails
UI component needs 3:1 Fails n/a

Black background

14.57:1

14.57

contrast ratio on black background

ElementAAAAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 Passes Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 Passes Passes
UI component needs 3:1 Passes n/a

At 1.44:1 against white, Apricot is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 14.57:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

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Color vision

How Apricot looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men
actual

#E9E9B9

Apricot shifts noticeably here. ΔE 20.4

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men
actual

#EBEFBA

Apricot shifts noticeably here. ΔE 23.2

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000
actual

#F9BEBF

Apricot shifts noticeably here. ΔE 16.3

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000
actual

#D7D7D7

Apricot shifts noticeably here. ΔE 23.6

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Apricot reads as #EBEFBA. That is a shift of ΔE 23.2, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 23.2. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

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Snippets

Using Apricot in code

:root {
  --apricot: #FBCEB1;
}

.example {
  color: var(--apricot);
}