Cantaloupe Melon Color Codes

Cantaloupe Melon is a light, vivid orange with the hex code #FFA62B, RGB values of 255, 166, 43 and an HSL value of hsl(35, 100%, 58%).

HEX	#FFA62B
RGB	255, 166, 43
HSL	hsl(35, 100%, 58%)
HSV	35°, 83%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 35%, 83%, 0%
LAB	75.27, 24.04, 70.98
CIELCHuv	75.27, 100.98, 43.75°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 137 C ΔE 5.3 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: orange ΔE 8.0

Community source Common web usage

Cantaloupe Melon Color Hex Code

The Cantaloupe Melon color hex code is #FFA62B. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, A6 for green and 2B for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FFA62B

Cantaloupe Melon Color RGB Code

The Cantaloupe Melon RGB code is rgb(255, 166, 43). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 166, 43)

Cantaloupe Melon Color HSV Code

The Cantaloupe Melon HSV code is 35°, 83%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 35 degrees, 83% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

35°, 83%, 100%

Cantaloupe Melon Color CIELChuv Code

The Cantaloupe Melon CIELCHuv code is 75.27, 100.98, 43.75°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 75 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 101 is how far it sits from grey.

75.27, 100.98, 43.75°

Tonal scale

What are Cantaloupe Melon 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 Cantaloupe Melon Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FFA62B. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #2B84FF, a mid-tone, 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

#FF3C2B and #EEFF2B 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

#2BFFA6 and #A62BFF 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: #2BEEFF and #3C2BFF. 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 #2B84FF, and #2BFF3C with #FF2BEE. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base 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

1.96:1

1.96

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

10.74:1

10.74

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 1.96:1 against white, Cantaloupe Melon 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 10.74:1. 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 Cantaloupe Melon 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

#DEDD5D

Cantaloupe Melon changes substantially here. ΔE 42.3

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#E3E965

Cantaloupe Melon changes substantially here. ΔE 46.3

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

#FC757A

Cantaloupe Melon changes substantially here. ΔE 56.8

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

#B9B9B9

Cantaloupe Melon changes substantially here. ΔE 74.9

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, Cantaloupe Melon reads as #E3E965. That is a shift of ΔE 46.3, 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 56.8. 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 Cantaloupe Melon in code

:root {
  --cantaloupe-melon: #FFA62B;
}

.example {
  color: var(--cantaloupe-melon);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'cantaloupe-melon': '#FFA62B',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let cantaloupeMelon = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 0.651,
    blue: 0.169
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="cantaloupe_melon">#FFA62B</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const cantaloupeMelon = Color(0xFFFFA62B);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Cantaloupe Melon Color?

Cantaloupe Melon reads as urgency, appetite and alarm. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 75 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Cantaloupe Melon Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Orange (#FFA500), though it is not a match: Delta-E 8.0 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 137 C at #FCA311. The name Cantaloupe Melon comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Cantaloupe Melon Color Made?

On a screen Cantaloupe Melon is made by additive light: 255 red, 166 green and 43 blue out of 255, with red leading and 43 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 35%, 83%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 35 degrees, Cantaloupe Melon is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.