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#DD8866

#DD8866

Oranges · #d86 is the three-digit shorthand for #DD8866. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#DD8866
RGB221, 136, 102
HSL17°, 64%, 63%
CMYK0%, 38%, 54%, 13%
Relative luminance0.34

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

2.7:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

7.79:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#64BBDD

Analogous

#DD647E#DDC364

Triadic

#64DD86#8664DD

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #d86 and #DD8866 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #d86 expands to #DD8866. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #DD8866?

Black text. Contrast against white is 2.7:1 and against black 7.79:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #DD8866?

Terracotta. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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