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Pictured: Terra cotta
rgb(226, 114, 91)
#E2725B

Terra Cotta #E2725B RGB Color Code

Terra Cotta (#E2725B) is a moderately saturated, medium red. In RGB it is made of 89% red, 45% green and 36% blue (R 226, G 114, B 91). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 10°, 70% saturation and 62% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.290, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 50% magenta, 60% yellow and 11% 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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Terra Cotta color codes

#E2725B in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #E2725B Valid CSS
RGB rgb(226, 114, 91) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(10, 70%, 62%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(10, 60%, 89%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(10 36% 11%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 50%, 60%, 11%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(67.74% 0.1444 32.94) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(67.74% 0.1212 0.0785) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(61.32% 43.12 33.81) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(61.32% 54.79 38.1) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8297 0.4707 0.3817) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3927 0.2896 0.1342) Valid CSS
Decimal 14840411 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2896. Nearest web-safe color: #CC6666.

Mix Terra Cotta with other colors

See what #E2725B 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.

PaintTerra Cotta and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightTerra Cotta and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintTerra Cotta and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalTerra Cotta blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Terra Cotta 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--terra-cotta: #E2725B;
Sass variable$terra-cotta: #E2725B;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-terra-cotta: #E2725B; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'terra-cotta': '#E2725B' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.886, green: 0.447, blue: 0.357)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.886, green: 0.447, blue: 0.357, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="terra_cotta">#FFE2725B</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFE2725B)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #E2725B (6.79:1, AA). Here is how #E2725B does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.09:1 on white
APCA Lc 57
AA LargeTry #C2553F
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.79:1 on black
APCA Lc -44
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 Terra Cotta

#E2725B 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

#E2725B 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 Terra Cotta

Baked earth

Terra cotta is Italian for baked earth. It comes from the Latin terra cocta, cooked earth. The word names a kind of clay pottery fired at a fairly low heat, often around 1,000 degrees Celsius. During firing, iron oxides in the clay react with oxygen and turn it a reddish orange. That is the color this name stands for, even though real terracotta can also come out yellow, buff, pink or brown.

Pots, roofs and an army

People have shaped and fired this clay for thousands of years. The most famous example is the Terracotta Army of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Those thousands of clay soldiers were made more than 2,200 years ago.

Where #E2725B comes from

Wikipedia's article on salmon lists this code for terra cotta and credits it to a list of embroidery thread colors. Close relatives on this site are burnt sienna, another earth color, and copper. For darker or lighter versions, see the shades of orange. Black text on terra cotta scores 6.79 to 1.

Terra Cotta in a user interface

A sample app screen with #E2725B as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #E2725B as it is. On the light theme, #E2725B is too hard to read as text (3.09:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C2553F there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Terra Cotta

These schemes turn the hue of #E2725B 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#E2725B#5BCBE2

Analogous

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

Open palette
#E25B88this#E2725B#E2B65B

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#E2725B#5BE272#725BE2

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#E2725B#5BE2B6#5B88E2

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#E2725B#CBE25B#5BCBE2#725BE2

Square

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

Open palette
this#E2725B#88E25B#5BCBE2#B65BE2

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#571B0F#9D321C#DB4E31#E78B78#F4C7BE

Gradients with Terra Cotta

Four CSS gradients made from #E2725B. 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, #FCE3DE, #E2725B);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #E2725B, #3E1B13);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E25B88, #E2725B, #E2B65B);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E2725B, #B8AF66, #5BE272);

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Shades, tints and tones of Terra Cotta

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF4F1
  2. 100
    FFE7E1
  3. 200
    FFCEC2
  4. 300
    FFA793
  5. 400
    E2725B
  6. 500
    CE604A
  7. 600
    AF4531
  8. 700
    90311F
  9. 800
    732314
  10. 900
    551A0E
  11. 950
    32120C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #E2725B in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 2012 Salmon orange#DB6A50, very close (ΔE 2.4)Tailwind CSSred-400 #F87171, very close (ΔE 4.9)CSS color namestomato #FF6347, close (ΔE 5.4)

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.