Coral

Hex #FF7F50, rgb(255 127 80). An orange CSS named color.

Coral#FF7F50

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About Coral

Coral is a light saturated orange with the hex code #FF7F50. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 127 green and 80 blue; in HSL its hue is 16°, with 100% saturation and 66% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 73.5%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "coral" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.50:1 and against black 8.40:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Coral mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Coral 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Coral

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

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Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Coral with white and black. The readable text color on Coral is black.

Coral textSmall text on white

On white2.50:1

AA fail
AA Large fail
AAA fail
UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 48

Coral textSmall text on black

On black8.40:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA pass
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -53

Black text on Coral (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Coral appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#A2924B
Deuteranopia#C1AF4D
Tritanopia#FF6574
Protanomaly#C1914B
Deuteranomaly#D0A34D
Tritanomaly#FF7562
Achromatopsia#A4A4A4

Colors similar to Coral

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Coral in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.coral {
  color: coral; /* #FF7F50 */
  background-color: rgb(255 127 80);
  border-color: oklch(73.5% 0.168 40.2);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-coral-500, text-coral-700... */
@theme {
  --color-coral-50: #FFF8F6;
  --color-coral-100: #FFEAE3;
  --color-coral-200: #FFD5C6;
  --color-coral-300: #FFB398;
  --color-coral-400: #FF7F50;
  --color-coral-500: #EF5913;
  --color-coral-600: #CF4800;
  --color-coral-700: #A73800;
  --color-coral-800: #862C00;
  --color-coral-900: #6D2200;
  --color-coral-950: #2C0800;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FF7F50] text-[#000000]">…</div>