Dark Orange

Hex #FF8C00, rgb(255 140 0). An orange CSS named color.

Dark Orange#FF8C00

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About Dark Orange

Dark Orange is a light saturated orange with the hex code #FF8C00. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 140 green and 0 blue; in HSL its hue is 33°, with 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 75.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darkorange" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.33:1 and against black 9.00:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Dark Orange 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 Dark Orange

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

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Contrast and readability

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

Dark Orange textSmall text on white

On white2.33:1

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

APCA Lc 45

Dark Orange textSmall text on black

On black9.00:1

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

APCA Lc -57

Black text on Dark Orange (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#AF9900
Deuteranopia#CAB400
Tritanopia#FF7177
Protanomaly#C99900
Deuteranomaly#D6AA00
Tritanomaly#FF8252
Achromatopsia#AAAAAA

Colors similar to Dark Orange

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Orange in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.dark-orange {
  color: darkorange; /* #FF8C00 */
  background-color: rgb(255 140 0);
  border-color: oklch(75.1% 0.179 58.3);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-orange-500, text-dark-orange-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-orange-50: #FFF9F4;
  --color-dark-orange-100: #FFECDE;
  --color-dark-orange-200: #FFD9BC;
  --color-dark-orange-300: #FFBA85;
  --color-dark-orange-400: #FF8C00;
  --color-dark-orange-500: #DA7700;
  --color-dark-orange-600: #BB6500;
  --color-dark-orange-700: #965000;
  --color-dark-orange-800: #783F00;
  --color-dark-orange-900: #613200;
  --color-dark-orange-950: #260F00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FF8C00] text-[#000000]">…</div>