Light Orange Color Codes

Light Orange is a very light, vivid orange with the hex code #FED8B1, RGB values of 254, 216, 177 and an HSL value of hsl(30, 97%, 85%).

HEX	#FED8B1
RGB	254, 216, 177
HSL	hsl(30, 97%, 85%)
HSV	30°, 30%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 15%, 30%, 0%
LAB	88.62, 7.71, 24.17
CIELCHuv	88.62, 41.95, 51.02°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 712 C ΔE 3.1 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: peachpuff ΔE 3.2

Source Wikipedia, List of colors

Light Orange Color Hex Code

The Light Orange color hex code is #FED8B1. Those six digits are three pairs, FE for red, D8 for green and B1 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FED8B1

Light Orange Color RGB Code

The Light Orange RGB code is rgb(254, 216, 177). Red carries the most light at 254 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(254, 216, 177)

Light Orange Color HSV Code

The Light Orange HSV code is 30°, 30%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 30 degrees, 30% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

30°, 30%, 100%

Light Orange Color CIELChuv Code

The Light Orange CIELCHuv code is 88.62, 41.95, 51.02°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 89 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 42 is how far it sits from grey.

88.62, 41.95, 51.02°

Tonal scale

What are Light Orange 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

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Light Orange Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FED8B1. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #B1D7FE, 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

#FEB2B1 and #FEFEB1 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

#B1FED8 and #D8B1FE 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: #B1FEFE and #B2B1FE. 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 #B1D7FE, and #B1FEB2 with #FEB1FE. 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

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

1.34:1

1.34

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
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

15.67:1

15.67

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
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 1.34:1 against white, Light Orange 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 15.67:1. 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.

Check Light Orange against another color →

Color vision

How Light Orange 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

#EFEEBB

Light Orange shifts noticeably here. ΔE 16.1

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#F1F3BE

Light Orange shifts noticeably here. ΔE 17.9

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

#FCC3C5

Light Orange shifts noticeably here. ΔE 22.1

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

#DEDEDE

Light Orange changes substantially here. ΔE 25.4

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, Light Orange reads as #F1F3BE. That is a shift of ΔE 17.9, 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 tritanopia, at ΔE 22.1. 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.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Light Orange in code

:root {
  --light-orange: #FED8B1;
}

.example {
  color: var(--light-orange);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'light-orange': '#FED8B1',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let lightOrange = Color(
    red: 0.996,
    green: 0.847,
    blue: 0.694
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="light_orange">#FED8B1</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const lightOrange = Color(0xFFFED8B1);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Light Orange Color?

Light Orange reads as warmth and welcome. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 97% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 89 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Light Orange Color?

The closest CSS keyword is PeachPuff (#FFDAB9), though it is not a match: Delta-E 3.2 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 712 C at #FFD3AA. The name Light Orange is the one carried by Wikipedia's list of colors.

How is Light Orange Color Made?

On a screen Light Orange is made by additive light: 254 red, 216 green and 177 blue out of 255, with red leading and 177 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 15%, 30%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 30 degrees, Light Orange is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.