Tomato

Hex #FF6347, rgb(255 99 71). A red CSS named color.

Tomato#FF6347

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About Tomato

Tomato is a medium saturated red with the hex code #FF6347. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 99 green and 71 blue; in HSL its hue is 9°, with 100% saturation and 64% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 69.6%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "tomato" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.95:1 and against black 7.13:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Tomato 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 Tomato

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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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Tomato textSmall text on white

On white2.95:1

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

APCA Lc 55

Tomato textSmall text on black

On black7.13:1

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

APCA Lc -47

Black text on Tomato (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#8E8143
Deuteranopia#B5A342
Tritanopia#FF3D5D
Protanomaly#B77E42
Deuteranomaly#C79542
Tritanomaly#FF5652
Achromatopsia#969696

Colors similar to Tomato

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Tomato in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.tomato {
  color: tomato; /* #FF6347 */
  background-color: rgb(255 99 71);
  border-color: oklch(69.6% 0.196 32.3);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-tomato-500, text-tomato-700... */
@theme {
  --color-tomato-50: #FFF8F7;
  --color-tomato-100: #FFE8E2;
  --color-tomato-200: #FFCEC4;
  --color-tomato-300: #FFA693;
  --color-tomato-400: #FF6347;
  --color-tomato-500: #F23108;
  --color-tomato-600: #D12600;
  --color-tomato-700: #AA1C00;
  --color-tomato-800: #891500;
  --color-tomato-900: #710F00;
  --color-tomato-950: #310200;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FF6347] text-[#000000]">…</div>