#FA8960a warm bold peach

#FA8960 in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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ART is Rhapsody's perceptual model. How ART works

What kind of orange is #FA8960?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #FA8960's, measured rather than asserted.

#FA8960's Munsell numbers: hue 0.1YR, value 6.8 (how light), chroma 10.7 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block strong yellowish pink, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 10.7 is moderate. Clearly colored, but not so saturated it fights the colors around it.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Shades of #FA8960, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #FA8960. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, peach-400.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

Is #FA8960 accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #FA8960 clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 60 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

#FA8960 in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Presses move this color a little, by less than a print run varies anyway, so a printer would call it a match. The pairs below show where each standard lands.

In CMYK, #FA8960 is C0 · M45.2 · Y61.6 · K2. That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get, near enough that a press run's own variation is the larger difference.

Colors similar to #FA8960

This color sits in The Peaches, close to the border with The Scarlets. Explore The Peaches

Named colors near this one: After Burn #FD8B60 (via color-name-list) · Pumpkin 400 #FF865D · Pink Fire #FC845D (via color-name-list) · Protein High #FF8866 (via color-name-list) · Barbarian #F78C5A (via color-name-list)

Colors that go with #FA8960

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool brilliant blue #4E99DB. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

Take #FA8960 with you

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