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#FF8866

#FF8866

Reds · #f86 is the three-digit shorthand for #FF8866. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#FF8866
RGB255, 136, 102
HSL13°, 100%, 70%
CMYK0%, 47%, 60%, 0%
Relative luminance0.4

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

2.34:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

8.97:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#66DEFF

Analogous

#FF6691#FFD466

Triadic

#66FF87#8766FF

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 #f86 and #FF8866 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #f86 expands to #FF8866. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #FF8866?

Black text. Contrast against white is 2.34:1 and against black 8.97:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #FF8866?

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

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