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Muted Pale Orange
#DDCCC6

Muted Pale Orange (#DDCCC6) with RGB(221, 204, 198) and HSL(16, 25%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

OrangePastelwarm

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Interactive

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Active theme: Muted Pale Orange

Values

Production-ready color values

Copy formats for CSS, handoff docs, tokens, and implementation.

HEX

#DDCCC6

RGB

rgb(221, 204, 198)

HSL

hsl(16, 25%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(16, 10%, 87%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 8%, 10%, 13%)

Decimal

14535878

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.55:1

On black

13.53:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#1A120F #30221D #503830 #704F43 #8F6556 #A97F70 #BC9B8F #CBB2A9 #DDCCC6 #EEE5E2

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.55:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

13.53:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #C6D6DD

Triadic

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #C6DDCC #CCC6DD

Analogous

Open palette

#DDC6CB #DDC6C6 #DDCCC6 #DDD1C6 #DDD7C6

Split complementary

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #C6DDD7 #C6CBDD

Tetradic

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #CBDDC6 #C6D6DD #D7C6DD

Monochromatic

Open palette

#402D26 #704F43 #9F7160 #BC9B8F #D9C6BF

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Muted Pale Orange (#DDCCC6) with RGB(221, 204, 198) and HSL(16, 25%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

orangepastelwarmhex-ddccc6h-16s-25l-82

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Muted Pale Orange */
color: #DDCCC6;
background-color: #DDCCC6;
border-color: #DDCCC6;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #ddccc640;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#DDCCC6] text-[#DDCCC6] border-[#DDCCC6] ring-[#DDCCC6]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.867, green: 0.800, blue: 0.776)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFDDCCC6)

Android XML

<color name="muted_pale_orange">#DDCCC6</color>

React Native

{ color: '#DDCCC6' }

Social Media

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About

About Muted Pale Orange

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Muted Pale Orange sits in the orange family with a pastel tone, so it opens softer surface systems. It reads as energetic, social, and forward-moving.

Applications

Muted Pale Orange (#DDCCC6) with RGB(221, 204, 198) and HSL(16, 25%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Orange

Tone

Pastel

Temperature

warm

Keywords

orange, pastel, warm, hex-ddccc6, h-16, s-25

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#DDCCC6

RGB

rgb(221, 204, 198)

HSL

hsl(16, 25%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(16, 10%, 87%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 8%, 10%, 13%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#1A120F #30221D #503830 #704F43 #8F6556 #A97F70 #BC9B8F #CBB2A9 #DDCCC6 #EEE5E2

900

#1A120F

800

#30221D

700

#503830

600

#704F43

500

#8F6556

400

#A97F70

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #C6D6DD

Triadic

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #C6DDCC #CCC6DD

Analogous

Open palette

#DDC6CB #DDC6C6 #DDCCC6 #DDD1C6 #DDD7C6

Split complementary

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #C6DDD7 #C6CBDD

Tetradic

Open palette

#DDCCC6 #CBDDC6 #C6D6DD #D7C6DD

Monochromatic

Open palette

#402D26 #704F43 #9F7160 #BC9B8F #D9C6BF

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#D6D5C7

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#D7D8C8

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#DCC9C9

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

1.55:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

13.53:1

AAA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Muted Pale Orange

Closest standard CSS name to #DDCCC6 for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-orange-pastel

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

orange-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #DDCCC6 as the core value.

HSL token

16 25% 82%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

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Muted Pale Orange#DDCCC6

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

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