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Pictured: Amber (SAE/ECE), the closest color we have a photo of (#FF7E00)
rgb(252, 118, 4)
#FC7604

Butternut Squash #FC7604 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Butternut Squash (#FC7604) is a vivid, light orange. In RGB it is made of 99% red, 46% green and 2% blue (R 252, G 118, B 4). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 28°, 98% saturation and 50% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.337, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 53% magenta, 98% yellow and 1% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Butternut Squash color codes

#FC7604 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FC7604 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(252, 118, 4) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(28, 98%, 50%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(28, 98%, 99%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(28 2% 1%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 53%, 98%, 1%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(71.3% 0.1893 49.36) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(71.3% 0.1233 0.1437) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(65.48% 49 72.77) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(65.48% 87.73 56.05) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9226 0.4928 0.1926) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4664 0.3366 0.0416) Valid CSS
Decimal 16545284 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.3366. Nearest web-safe color: #FF6600.

Mix Butternut Squash with other colors

See what #FC7604 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintButternut Squash and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightButternut Squash and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintButternut Squash and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalButternut Squash blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Butternut Squash in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--butternut-squash: #FC7604;
Sass variable$butternut-squash: #FC7604;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-butternut-squash: #FC7604; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'butternut-squash': '#FC7604' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.463, blue: 0.016)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.463, blue: 0.016, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="butternut_squash">#FFFC7604</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFC7604)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FC7604 (7.73:1, AAA). Here is how #FC7604 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.72:1 on white
APCA Lc 52
Fails AATry #C15800
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
7.73:1 on black
APCA Lc -50
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Butternut Squash

#FC7604 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#FC7604 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Butternut Squash

A young vegetable

Butternut squash is a newer plant than most people think. Charles Leggett of Stow, Massachusetts bred it in 1944 by crossing pumpkin and gooseneck squash. The skin is a tan yellow. The flesh inside turns deeper orange as it ripens, because it is full of beta carotene. The Wikipedia page on butternut squash tells the story.

Crayon and screen

Crayola has a Butternut Squash crayon in its 2019 box of Pearl Crayons. Wikipedia gives it as #E74F00, a redder orange than the #FC7604 on this page. Our code comes from an open online name list with no clear source. It is close to pumpkin and safety orange.

Butternut Squash in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FC7604 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FC7604 as it is. On the light theme, #FC7604 is too hard to read as text (2.72:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C15800 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Butternut Squash

These schemes turn the hue of #FC7604 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#FC7604#048AFC

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#FC040Ethis#FC7604#FCF204

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#FC7604#04FC76#7604FC

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#FC7604#04FCF2#040EFC

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#FC7604#8AFC04#048AFC#7604FC

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#FC7604#0EFC04#048AFC#F204FC

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#652F01#B75502#FC7C10#FDA962#FED6B3

Gradients with Butternut Squash

Four CSS gradients made from #FC7604. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FFE6D9, #FC7604);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FC7604, #471C00);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FC040E, #FC7604, #FCF204);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FC7604, #C4C04B, #04FC76);

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Shades, tints and tones of Butternut Squash

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Butternut Squash sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4EF
  2. 100
    FFE7DB
  3. 200
    FFCFB6
  4. 300
    FFA97A
  5. 400
    FC7604
  6. 500
    D26100
  7. 600
    AA4D00
  8. 700
    883C00
  9. 800
    6B2E00
  10. 900
    502000
  11. 950
    331200

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FC7604 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 2008 Bright red orange#F3752C, very close (ΔE 2.1)Tailwind CSSorange-500 #F97316, nearly the same (ΔE 1.0)CSS color namescoral #FF7F50, very close (ΔE 4.2)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of orange or search the color library.