HEX Color #FFC575 (Sandybrown)

About #FFC575

At its core, #FFC575 is a light and vivid hue. Designers often compare it to the standard color Sandybrown. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 255, 197, and 117.

Translating this color to physical media requires the CMYK color model. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 23% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 34.8 degrees, it sits comfortably in the orange spectrum.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. Mathematical luminance calculations suggest that #000000 text provides the most optimal reading experience. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#FFC575

RGB255, 197, 117

HSL34.8°, 100.0%, 72.9%

CMYK0%, 23%, 54%, 0%

HSV34.8°, 54.1%, 100.0%

LAB83.2, 11.8, 47.7

XYZ64.4, 62.5, 25.5

Decimal16762229

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#FFC575 #74AEFF

Analogous

#FF7F74 #F4FF74

Triadic

#74FFC5 #C474FF

Tetradic

#74FF80 #74AEFF #FF74F3

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#FFC575

#FFCB84

#FFD193

#FFD8A3

#FFDEB2

#FFE5C1

#FFEBD1

#FFF2E0

#FFF8EF

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#FFC575

#E2AF68

#C6995B

#AA834E

#8D6D41

#715734

#554127

#382B1A

#1C150D

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

1.56:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

13.50:1

Text on #000000

AAA

1.49:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

11.47:1

Text on #0F172A

AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #FFC575; }

.text-color { color: #FFC575; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #FFC575; }

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