#E09430

sRGB: 224 / 148 / 48

Infinite horizons linger without sound
Shimmering rivers breathe beneath silver clouds
Fleeting moments vanish without farewell

#E09430 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 224 red, 148 green and 48 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 34.1° lands in the orange region. Its 73.9% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 53.3% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (8.45:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 224, 148, 48
HSL: 34.09°, 73.95%, 53.33%
HSV / HSB: 34.09°, 78.57%, 87.84%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 33.93%, 78.57%, 12.16%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 41.863, 37.242, 7.780
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 67.459, 20.689, 60.907
WCAG relative luminance: 0.37241
24-bit decimal: 14718000

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #E09430 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 8.45:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.49:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#307CE0 sits half a turn (180°) from #E09430 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#E09430 #307CE0

Analogous

#E03C30 and #D4E030 sit 30° to either side of #E09430. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#E03C30 #E09430 #D4E030

Triadic

#E09430, #30E094 and #9430E0 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#E09430 #30E094 #9430E0

Split complementary

Start at #E09430 and look across the wheel. #30D4E0 and #3C30E0 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#E09430 #30D4E0 #3C30E0

Square

Starting with #E09430, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #30E03C, #307CE0, then #E030D4. Across the square, #E09430 pairs with #307CE0, and #30E03C with #E030D4.

#E09430 #30E03C #307CE0 #E030D4

Tetradic

#E09430 and #307CE0 are opposites, as are #7CE030 and #9430E0. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#E09430 #7CE030 #307CE0 #9430E0

Tints

Mixing #E09430 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #E6A959, keeps 80% of the original. By #F9EAD6, the mixture is 80% white.

#E09430 #E6A959 #ECBF83 #F3D4AC #F9EAD6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #E09430 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B37626, keeps 80% of the original. By #2D1E0A, the mixture is 80% black.

#E09430 #B37626 #86591D #5A3B13 #2D1E0A #000000

Tones

Mixing #E09430 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CD9040, keeps 80% of the original. By #938470, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#E09430 #CD9040 #BA8C50 #A68860 #938470 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#E09430

RGB

rgb(224 148 48)

HSL

hsl(34.091 73.950% 53.333%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #E09430;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#E09430 uses 224 red, 148 green and 48 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 87.8%

Green 58.0%

Blue 18.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #E09430 is 0.0% cyan, 33.9% magenta, 78.6% yellow and 12.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 33.9%

Yellow 78.6%

Black 12.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #DD9933. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #D93 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #E09430 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC9933, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #DD9933 Nearest web-safe: #CC9933

Gradient to complement

#E09430 #C3904D #A58C6B #888888 #6B84A5 #4D80C3 #307CE0

Color vision previews

Compare how #E09430 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#AD9A1F

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#BFAB33

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#F48280

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#C29A26

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#C9A330

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#E39059

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#A4A4A4

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#C59C7C

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.74540 G 0.29614 B 0.02956

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.83544 G 0.59353 B 0.27415

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.66564 G 0.31105 B 0.06109

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.482 y 0.429 Y 37.242

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 12.157 M % 41.961 Y % 81.176

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

11100000 10010100 00110000