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Pictured: Deep saffron, the closest color we have a photo of (#FF9933)
rgb(255, 166, 43)
#FFA62B

Mango #FFA62B RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Mango (#FFA62B) is a vivid, light orange. In RGB it is made of 100% red, 65% green and 17% blue (R 255, G 166, B 43). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 35°, 100% saturation and 58% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.487, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 35% magenta, 83% yellow and 0% 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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Mango color codes

#FFA62B in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FFA62B Valid CSS
RGB rgb(255, 166, 43) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(35, 100%, 58%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(35, 83%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(35 17% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 35%, 83%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(79.56% 0.1623 68.53) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(79.56% 0.0594 0.151) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(75.9% 27.46 71.34) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(75.9% 76.44 68.94) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9501 0.6666 0.2864) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5531 0.4871 0.0877) Valid CSS
Decimal 16754219 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4871. Nearest web-safe color: #FF9933.

Mix Mango with other colors

See what #FFA62B 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.

PaintMango and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightMango and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintMango and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMango blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Mango in your code

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

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--mango: #FFA62B;
Sass variable$mango: #FFA62B;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-mango: #FFA62B; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'mango': '#FFA62B' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.651, blue: 0.169)
UIKitUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.651, blue: 0.169, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="mango">#FFFFA62B</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFFA62B)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FFA62B (10.74:1, AAA). Here is how #FFA62B does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.96:1 on white
APCA Lc 37
Fails AATry #A86800
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
10.74:1 on black
APCA Lc -65
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 Mango

#FFA62B 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

#FFA62B 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 Mango

Named by thousands of strangers

This code comes from the xkcd color survey. In 2010 the web comic artist Randall Munroe showed visitors random colors and asked them to type a name. Over five million colors were named in 222,500 user sessions, his survey results post reports. Mango, #FFA62B, is the point in RGB space where people typed that word most often.

Other mangoes

Wikipedia lists different codes. Its alphabetical list gives #FDBE02, and its shades of yellow page shows #FFC800. Both are more yellow than ours, while the survey mango leans orange. The same Wikipedia page says nobody knows when mango was first used as a color name in English.

Compare it with mango tango, a Crayola crayon, or browse the shades of orange. Black text on #FFA62B is easy to read, with a contrast of 10.74 to 1.

Mango in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FFA62B as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FFA62B as it is. On the light theme, #FFA62B is too hard to read as text (1.96:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A86800 there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Mango

These schemes turn the hue of #FFA62B 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#FFA62B#2B84FF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FF3C2Bthis#FFA62B#EEFF2B

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FFA62B#2BFFA6#A62BFF

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FFA62B#2BEEFF#3C2BFF

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FFA62B#84FF2B#2B84FF#A62BFF

Square

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

Open palette
this#FFA62B#2BFF3C#2B84FF#FF2BEE

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#663B00#B96B00#FF990D#FFBC60#FFDFB3

Gradients with Mango

Four CSS gradients made from #FFA62B. 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, #FFEEDC, #FFA62B);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FFA62B, #482B05);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF3C2B, #FFA62B, #EEFF2B);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFA62B, #C1D672, #2BFFA6);

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Shades, tints and tones of Mango

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)

Mango sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5EB
  2. 100
    FFE9D1
  3. 200
    FFD1A0
  4. 300
    FFA62B
  5. 400
    E08E0A
  6. 500
    BA7400
  7. 600
    975D00
  8. 700
    784900
  9. 800
    5F3900
  10. 900
    462900
  11. 950
    2C1800

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FFA62B in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 2007 Luminous bright orange#FFA421, nearly the same (ΔE 0.5)Tailwind CSSamber-500 #F59E0B, very close (ΔE 2.8)CSS color namesorange #FFA500, nearly the same (ΔE 1.1)

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.