Orange Red

Hex #FF4500, rgb(255 69 0). An orange CSS named color.

Orange Red#FF4500

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About Orange Red

Orange Red is a medium vivid orange with the hex code #FF4500. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 69 green and 0 blue; in HSL its hue is 16°, with 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 66.0%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "orangered" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 3.44:1 and against black 6.10:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Orange Red 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 Orange Red

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 Orange Red with white and black. The readable text color on Orange Red is black.

Orange Red textSmall text on white

On white3.44:1

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

APCA Lc 60

Orange Red textSmall text on black

On black6.10:1

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

APCA Lc -41

Black text on Orange Red (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#807000
Deuteranopia#AD9900
Tritanopia#FF003C
Protanomaly#AF6C00
Deuteranomaly#C28900
Tritanomaly#FF2C27
Achromatopsia#8A8A8A

Colors similar to Orange Red

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Orange Red in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.orange-red {
  color: orangered; /* #FF4500 */
  background-color: rgb(255 69 0);
  border-color: oklch(66% 0.229 35.4);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-orange-red-500, text-orange-red-700... */
@theme {
  --color-orange-red-50: #FFF8F7;
  --color-orange-red-100: #FFE9E4;
  --color-orange-red-200: #FFD3C7;
  --color-orange-red-300: #FFAF9A;
  --color-orange-red-400: #FF7855;
  --color-orange-red-500: #FF4500;
  --color-orange-red-600: #DA3A00;
  --color-orange-red-700: #B02C00;
  --color-orange-red-800: #8E2200;
  --color-orange-red-900: #731A00;
  --color-orange-red-950: #2F0500;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FF4500] text-[#000000]">…</div>