#EE7821

sRGB: 238 / 120 / 33

Infinite horizons fracture ancient heavens
Hidden pathways echo between distant mountains
Distant echoes surrender to silence

#EE7821 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 238 red, 120 green and 33 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 25.5° lands in the orange region. Its 85.8% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 53.1% 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 (7.34:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 238, 120, 33
HSL: 25.46°, 85.77%, 53.14%
HSV / HSB: 25.46°, 86.13%, 93.33%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 49.58%, 86.13%, 6.67%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 42.250, 31.723, 5.337
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 63.113, 40.589, 63.212
WCAG relative luminance: 0.31720
24-bit decimal: 15628321

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 #EE7821 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: 7.34:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.86:1

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

#2197EE sits half a turn (180°) from #EE7821 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.

#EE7821 #2197EE

Analogous

#EE2131 and #EEDE21 sit 30° to either side of #EE7821. 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.

#EE2131 #EE7821 #EEDE21

Triadic

#EE7821, #21EE78 and #7821EE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#EE7821 #21EE78 #7821EE

Split complementary

Start at #EE7821 and look across the wheel. #21EEDF and #2130EE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#EE7821 #21EEDF #2130EE

Square

Starting with #EE7821, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #31EE21, #2197EE, then #DF21EE. Across the square, #EE7821 pairs with #2197EE, and #31EE21 with #DF21EE.

#EE7821 #31EE21 #2197EE #DF21EE

Tetradic

#EE7821 and #2197EE are opposites, as are #97EE21 and #7821EE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#EE7821 #97EE21 #2197EE #7821EE

Tints

Mixing #EE7821 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #F1934D, keeps 80% of the original. By #FCE4D3, the mixture is 80% white.

#EE7821 #F1934D #F5AE7A #F8C9A6 #FCE4D3 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #EE7821 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BE601A, keeps 80% of the original. By #301807, the mixture is 80% black.

#EE7821 #BE601A #8F4814 #5F300D #301807 #000000

Tones

Mixing #EE7821 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D87A34, keeps 80% of the original. By #967E6D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#EE7821 #D87A34 #C27B47 #AC7D5A #967E6D #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

#EE7821

RGB

rgb(238 120 33)

HSL

hsl(25.463 85.774% 53.137%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #EE7821;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#EE7821 uses 238 red, 120 green and 33 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 93.3%

Green 47.1%

Blue 12.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #EE7821 is 0.0% cyan, 49.6% magenta, 86.1% yellow and 6.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 49.6%

Yellow 86.1%

Black 6.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #EE7722. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #E72 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #EE7821 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #FF6633, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #EE7722 Nearest web-safe: #FF6633

Gradient to complement

#EE7821 #CC7D43 #AA8265 #888888 #658DAA #4392CC #2197EE

Color vision previews

Compare how #EE7821 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.

#9A880C

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.

#B7A31E

Tritanopia

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

#FF5D68

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.

#BE8612

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.

#C8951B

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#F07447

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#999999

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.

#C98A71

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 0.85499 G 0.18782 B 0.01521

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 0.87379 G 0.49557 B 0.22673

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.73654 G 0.20997 B 0.04205

CIE xyY

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

x 0.533 y 0.400 Y 31.723

CMY

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

C % 6.667 M % 52.941 Y % 87.059

Binary RGB

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

11101110 01111000 00100001