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rgb(253, 94, 83)
#FD5E53

Sunset Orange #FD5E53 RGB Color Code

Sunset Orange (#FD5E53) is a vivid, light red. In RGB it is made of 99% red, 37% green and 33% blue (R 253, G 94, B 83). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 4°, 98% saturation and 66% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.295, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 63% magenta, 67% 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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Sunset Orange color codes

#FD5E53 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FD5E53 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(253, 94, 83) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(4, 98%, 66%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(4, 67%, 99%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(4 33% 1%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 63%, 67%, 1%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(68.88% 0.1959 27.35) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(68.88% 0.174 0.09) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(62% 61.1 40.25) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(62% 73.16 33.37) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9201 0.4112 0.3553) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4607 0.2952 0.1146) Valid CSS
Decimal 16604755 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2951. Nearest web-safe color: #FF6666.

Mix Sunset Orange with other colors

See what #FD5E53 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.

PaintSunset Orange and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightSunset Orange and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintSunset Orange and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalSunset Orange blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Sunset Orange 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--sunset-orange: #FD5E53;
Sass variable$sunset-orange: #FD5E53;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-sunset-orange: #FD5E53; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'sunset-orange': '#FD5E53' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.369, blue: 0.325)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.369, blue: 0.325, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="sunset_orange">#FFFD5E53</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFD5E53)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FD5E53 (6.90:1, AA). Here is how #FD5E53 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.04:1 on white
APCA Lc 56
AA LargeTry #DA3C35
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.90:1 on black
APCA Lc -46
AA

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 Sunset Orange

#FD5E53 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

#FD5E53 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 Sunset Orange

A crayon from 1997

Sunset Orange is a Crayola crayon color that came out in 1997, and it is still made. Despite the name, it looks more like a coral red than an orange.

Two codes for one crayon

The Wikipedia list of Crayola colors gives the crayon as #FE4C40. The free Name That Color list uses that code too. The code on this page, #FD5E53, comes from Wikipedia's article on sunset colors, which also calls it a Crayola color. The two are close, but #FD5E53 is a little lighter and softer.

On a basketball jersey

The Oklahoma City Thunder wore sunset orange on alternate jerseys in the 2015 to 2016 season, as the Wikipedia sunset article notes.

For close colors, compare it with bittersweet and tomato. Black text on #FD5E53 has a contrast ratio of 6.9 to 1, which is better than white.

Sunset Orange in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FD5E53 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FD5E53 as it is. On the light theme, #FD5E53 is too hard to read as text (3.04:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #DA3C35 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Sunset Orange

These schemes turn the hue of #FD5E53 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#FD5E53#53F2FD

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FD539Dthis#FD5E53#FDB353

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FD5E53#53FD5E#5E53FD

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FD5E53#53FDB3#539DFD

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FD5E53#F2FD53#53F2FD#5E53FD

Square

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

Open palette
this#FD5E53#9DFD53#53F2FD#B353FD

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#650801#B70E02#FC1F10#FD6C61#FEB8B3

Gradients with Sunset Orange

Four CSS gradients made from #FD5E53. 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, #FFE2DE, #FD5E53);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FD5E53, #471411);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FD539D, #FD5E53, #FDB353);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FD5E53, #CFB85A, #53FD5E);

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Shades, tints and tones of Sunset Orange

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF4F2
  2. 100
    FFE6E3
  3. 200
    FFCDC6
  4. 300
    FFA69B
  5. 400
    FD5E53
  6. 500
    E4463E
  7. 600
    C32524
  8. 700
    A10910
  9. 800
    810007
  10. 900
    600306
  11. 950
    380B08

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FD5E53 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 2017 RAL orange#FA4402, close (ΔE 5.6)Tailwind CSSred-400 #F87171, very close (ΔE 4.0)CSS color namestomato #FF6347, nearly the same (ΔE 1.9)

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.