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Pictured: Dark pastel red, the closest color we have a photo of (#C23B22)
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#C0362C

International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) #C0362C RGB Color Code

International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) (#C0362C) is a vivid, medium red. In RGB it is made of 75% red, 21% green and 17% blue (R 192, G 54, B 44). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 4°, 63% saturation and 46% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.140, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 72% magenta, 77% yellow and 25% 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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International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) color codes

#C0362C in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #C0362C Valid CSS
RGB rgb(192, 54, 44) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(4, 63%, 46%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(4, 77%, 75%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(4 17% 25%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 72%, 77%, 25%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(54.04% 0.1765 28.56) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(54.04% 0.155 0.0844) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(44.98% 55 39.69) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(44.98% 67.82 35.82) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6944 0.2556 0.2048) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2351 0.1403 0.0385) Valid CSS
Decimal 12596780 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1403. Nearest web-safe color: #CC3333.

Mix International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) with other colors

See what #C0362C 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.

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Use International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) 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--international-orange-golden-gate-bridge: #C0362C;
Sass variable$international-orange-golden-gate-bridge: #C0362C;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-international-orange-golden-gate-bridge: #C0362C; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'international-orange-golden-gate-bridge': '#C0362C' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.753, green: 0.212, blue: 0.173)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.753, green: 0.212, blue: 0.173, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="international_orange_golden_gate_bridge">#FFC0362C</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFC0362C)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #C0362C (5.52:1, AA). Here is how #C0362C does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.52:1 on white
APCA Lc 76
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.81:1 on black
APCA Lc -25
AA LargeTry #CE4438

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 International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge)

#C0362C 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

#C0362C 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 International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge)

Two codes for one bridge

This page shows #C0362C, a brick red that Wikipedia's color lists used for the Golden Gate Bridge for many years. The bridge district itself gives the paint as PMS 173, or 0% cyan, 69% magenta, 100% yellow and 6% black. Turned into screen values, that mix is about #F04A00, a much brighter orange. The Wikipedia article on international orange now uses that brighter code. The color list gives no source for the older, darker code.

Picked over stripes

Architect Irving Morrow chose the color. The US Navy had other ideas and wanted the bridge painted in black and yellow stripes so ships could see it. Morrow's orange won, and the bridge opened in 1937.

The first coats were lead paint. In the mid 1960s crews began stripping the bridge and repainting it with a zinc silicate primer and a vinyl top coat. Acrylic top coats replaced the vinyl in 1990 to cut air pollution, and the full repaint ended in 1995. Since then, a team of painters has kept the bridge up by touching up spots where rust breaks through.

The 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, is painted the same color.

Related oranges

The bright aerospace version and the deep engineering version have their own pages. White text on #C0362C reaches a contrast ratio of 5.52 to 1.

International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) in a user interface

A sample app screen with #C0362C as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #C0362C as it is. On the dark theme, #C0362C is too hard to read as text (3.22:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #DC5144 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge)

These schemes turn the hue of #C0362C 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#C0362C#2CB6C0

Analogous

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

Open palette
#C02C6Cthis#C0362C#C0802C

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#C0362C#2CC036#362CC0

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#C0362C#2CC080#2C6CC0

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#C0362C#B6C02C#2CB6C0#362CC0

Square

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

Open palette
this#C0362C#6CC02C#2CB6C0#802CC0

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#531713#962A22#D2443A#E1847D#F1C4C1

Gradients with International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge)

Four CSS gradients made from #C0362C. 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, #F7D8D4, #C0362C);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #C0362C, #340805);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C02C6C, #C0362C, #C0802C);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C0362C, #9C8632, #2CC036);

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Shades, tints and tones of International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge)

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)

International Orange (Golden Gate Bridge) sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4F2
  2. 100
    FFE6E2
  3. 200
    FFCDC5
  4. 300
    FFA699
  5. 400
    FA7464
  6. 500
    DC5144
  7. 600
    C0362C
  8. 700
    9B1F18
  9. 800
    7D120E
  10. 900
    5C0E0A
  11. 950
    360E0A

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #C0362C in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 2002 Vermilion#C63927, nearly the same (ΔE 1.5)Tailwind CSSorange-700 #C2410C, very close (ΔE 3.3)CSS color namesfirebrick #B22222, very close (ΔE 4.4)

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 red or search the color library.