#FFA487

sRGB: 255 / 164 / 135

Cosmic tempests reshape eternity
Sacred blossoms breathe beneath silver clouds
Golden visions embrace the coming dawn

#FFA487 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 255 red, 164 green and 135 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 14.5° lands in the red region. Its 100.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 76.5% 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 (10.91:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 255, 164, 135
HSL: 14.50°, 100.00%, 76.47%
HSV / HSB: 14.50°, 47.06%, 100.00%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 35.69%, 47.06%, 0.00%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 58.887, 49.563, 29.388
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 75.800, 30.561, 29.035
WCAG relative luminance: 0.49560
24-bit decimal: 16753799

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 #FFA487 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: 10.91:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.92:1

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

#87E2FF sits half a turn (180°) from #FFA487 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.

#FFA487 #87E2FF

Analogous

#FF87A6 and #FFE087 sit 30° to either side of #FFA487. 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.

#FF87A6 #FFA487 #FFE087

Triadic

#FFA487, #87FFA4 and #A487FF are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#FFA487 #87FFA4 #A487FF

Split complementary

Start at #FFA487 and look across the wheel. #87FFE0 and #87A6FF sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#FFA487 #87FFE0 #87A6FF

Square

Starting with #FFA487, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #A6FF87, #87E2FF, then #E087FF. Across the square, #FFA487 pairs with #87E2FF, and #A6FF87 with #E087FF.

#FFA487 #A6FF87 #87E2FF #E087FF

Tetradic

#FFA487 and #87E2FF are opposites, as are #E2FF87 and #A487FF. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#FFA487 #E2FF87 #87E2FF #A487FF

Tints

Mixing #FFA487 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #FFB69F, keeps 80% of the original. By #FFEDE7, the mixture is 80% white.

#FFA487 #FFB69F #FFC8B7 #FFDBCF #FFEDE7 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #FFA487 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CC836C, keeps 80% of the original. By #33211B, the mixture is 80% black.

#FFA487 #CC836C #996251 #664236 #33211B #000000

Tones

Mixing #FFA487 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #E69D86, keeps 80% of the original. By #998781, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#FFA487 #E69D86 #CC9684 #B38E83 #998781 #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

#FFA487

RGB

rgb(255 164 135)

HSL

hsl(14.500 100.000% 76.471%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #FFA487;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#FFA487 uses 255 red, 164 green and 135 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 100.0%

Green 64.3%

Blue 52.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #FFA487 is 0.0% cyan, 35.7% magenta, 47.1% yellow and 0.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 35.7%

Yellow 47.1%

Black 0.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #FFAA88. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #FA8 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #FFA487 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #FF9999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #FFAA88 Nearest web-safe: #FF9999

Gradient to complement

#FFA487 #EBAE9B #D7B9AF #C3C3C3 #AFCDD7 #9BD8EB #87E2FF

Color vision previews

Compare how #FFA487 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.

#BAAF85

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.

#D0C286

Tritanopia

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

#FF969D

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.

#D7AE85

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.

#DFB886

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#FFA290

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#BBBBBB

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.

#E0B0A4

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 1.00000 G 0.37124 B 0.24228

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 0.94923 G 0.65923 B 0.55123

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.88837 G 0.39211 B 0.26456

CIE xyY

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

x 0.427 y 0.360 Y 49.563

CMY

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

C % 0.000 M % 35.686 Y % 47.059

Binary RGB

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

11111111 10100100 10000111