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Carrot#fd6f3brgb(253, 111, 59) · red

Carrot #fd6f3b

Carrot is the registered name for #fd6f3b. Below: values, variations, harmonies, contrast and ready-to-paste CSS.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#fd6f3b packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: fd red, 6f green, 3b blue.

What RGB means

Red 253, green 111, blue 59 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 16° (red), saturation 98%, lightness 61%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (70.7%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text2.79:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text7.51:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For white text

#d24701

4.52:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #ffedde;
  --primary-100: #ffdcc6;
  --primary-200: #ffc0a2;
  --primary-300: #ff9e78;
  --primary-400: #f87648;
  --primary-500: #fd6f3b;
  --primary-600: #b73000;
  --primary-700: #9a1a00;
  --primary-800: #7f0700;
  --primary-900: #680200;
  --primary-950: #3d0300;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fd6f3b, #3ac9fd);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #fd6f3b;
background-color: #fd6f3b;
:root {
  --color-primary: #fd6f3b;
}
color: rgb(253 111 59);
color: oklch(70.7% 0.1857 39.56);
<div class="bg-[#fd6f3b]">…</div>