Photo in the color Pale copper
Pictured: Pale copper
rgb(218, 138, 103)
#DA8A67

Pale Copper #DA8A67 RGB Color Code

Also known as Copper (Crayola)

Pale Copper (#DA8A67) is a moderately saturated, light red. In RGB it is made of 85% red, 54% green and 40% blue (R 218, G 138, B 103). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 18Β°, 61% saturation and 63% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.341, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 37% magenta, 53% yellow and 15% 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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Pale Copper color codes

#DA8A67 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #DA8A67 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(218, 138, 103) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(18, 61%, 63%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(18, 53%, 85%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(18 40% 15%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 37%, 53%, 15%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(70.85% 0.1096 44.2) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(70.85% 0.0786 0.0764) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(65.47% 28.76 32.09) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(65.47% 43.09 48.13) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8105 0.5554 0.4287) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4045 0.3406 0.1728) Valid CSS
Decimal 14322279 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.3406. Nearest web-safe color: #CC9966.

Mix Pale Copper with other colors

See what #DA8A67 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.

PaintPale Copper and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPale Copper and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPale Copper and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPale Copper blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pale Copper 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--pale-copper: #DA8A67;
Sass variable$pale-copper: #DA8A67;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pale-copper: #DA8A67; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pale-copper': '#DA8A67' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.541, blue: 0.404)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.541, blue: 0.404, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pale_copper">#FFDA8A67</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFDA8A67)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #DA8A67 (7.81:1, AAA). Here is how #DA8A67 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.69:1 on white
APCA Lc 52
Fails AATry #AF6341
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
7.81:1 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 Pale Copper

#DA8A67 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

#DA8A67 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 Pale Copper

Wikipedia's label for a crayon

Pale copper is the label the Wikipedia article on copper as a color gives to #DA8A67. The article explains that this is the shade Crayola sells as plain Copper, a crayon first made in 1903. We found no paint or crayon sold under the name pale copper. The word pale just sets it apart from the darker copper of Maerz and Paul, #B87333. Wikipedia's main color list now shows the same code as Copper (Crayola), with a note asking for a citation. The crayon's own story is on the Copper (Crayola) page.

Dark text works best

Black text on pale copper reaches 7.81 to 1. That passes even the strictest WCAG level for normal text, which asks for 7 to 1. White text gets only 2.69 to 1. For deeper metal tones, see copper red or the shades of orange.

Pale Copper in a user interface

A sample app screen with #DA8A67 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #DA8A67 as it is. On the light theme, #DA8A67 is too hard to read as text (2.69:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #AF6341 there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pale Copper

These schemes turn the hue of #DA8A67 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#DA8A67#67B7DA

Analogous

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

Open palette
#DA677Ethis#DA8A67#DAC467

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#DA8A67#67DA8A#8A67DA

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#DA8A67#67DAC4#677EDA

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#DA8A67#B7DA67#67B7DA#8A67DA

Square

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

Open palette
this#DA8A67#7EDA67#67B7DA#C467DA

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#522714#954624#D0693C#E09C7F#F0D0C1

Gradients with Pale Copper

Four CSS gradients made from #DA8A67. 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, #F9E8E0, #DA8A67);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #DA8A67, #3C2217);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #DA677E, #DA8A67, #DAC467);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #DA8A67, #B1B578, #67DA8A);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pale Copper

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF4F0
  2. 100
    FFE7DD
  3. 200
    FFCFBA
  4. 300
    F3AF91
  5. 400
    DA8A67
  6. 500
    BC6F4D
  7. 600
    9E5534
  8. 700
    824022
  9. 800
    673116
  10. 900
    4C2310
  11. 950
    2C160C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #DA8A67 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3012 Beige red#CB8D73, very close (Ξ”E 2.7)Tailwind CSSamber-600 #D97706, close (Ξ”E 7.2)CSS color namesdarksalmon #E9967A, very close (Ξ”E 4.3)

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of red or search the color library.