Cheese `#FFA600`

Cheese (#FFA600) is a light, saturated orange with an OKLCH hue of 71°, lightness 0.79 and chroma 0.171. It sits on the warm side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as an accent color: strong in focal moments, dominant over large fields.

Color values

HEX	`#FFA600`
RGB	`rgb(255, 166, 0)`
HSL	`hsl(39, 100%, 50%)`
HSV	`hsv(39, 100%, 100%)`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 35%, 100%, 0%)`
CIE Lab	`lab(75.2 23.4 79.1)`
OKLCH	`oklch(0.794 0.171 71)`

How Cheese behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Cheese shifts subtly: leans toward red; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 1.4), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Warm interior (2700K incandescent / warm LED): → #ffa000 — ΔE 1.4, shifts subtly: leans toward red
Neutral LED (4000K task and retail lighting): → #ffa600 — ΔE 0.0, is virtually unchanged
Daylight (6500K standard daylight (reference)): → #ffa600 — ΔE 0.0, is virtually unchanged
Blue-sky shade (cool daylight (~10000K proxy)): → #ffa705 — ΔE 0.2, is virtually unchanged

Test Cheese in the color lighting simulator — sweep it through daylight, warm 2700K light, 4000K LED, and shade alongside the rest of your palette.

Contrast & accessibility

Against white it measures 1.96:1 and against black 10.71:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text. Avoid white text on this color entirely.

Colors that go with Cheese

Tonal

One color explored: close hues with real lightness and chroma structure, so the palette is the anchor through value rather than a set of colors.

#ffefdd · #ffa600 · #dd8f00 · #ab6d00 · #7c4e00 · #4f3000

Analogous

The anchor's neighbours on the wheel — everything shares an undertone, so the chord carries color without anything having to be muted to get along.

#efe374 · #f8c643 · #ffa600 · #f38a36 · #e0734e · #c8605d

Shifted

The mid-gap pairing — sage and mustard, terracotta and olive. A foil rotated 40–65° toward warm or cool: too far to be kin, too near to argue, carried by temperature and a deliberate value offset.

#ffa600 · #92a66a · #ad6f00 · #556c00 · #623d00 · #253200

Contrast

One deliberately opposed voice — a single restrained counterpoint across the wheel, or temperature against temperature where the anchor is too muted to carry a loud opposite.

#f6dbbb · #ffa600 · #2c94f5 · #7a4f0e · #543300 · #301b00

Quiet Support

The anchor as the only color in the room. True neutrals or complement-warmed near-neutrals let it stay dominant.

#e8f3ff · #ffa600 · #ae9d89 · #59616b · #34240f · #000105

Bright Accent

This color as a ground rather than a subject — its own restraint held across a narrow value band, carrying one saturated voice from the opposite temperature.

#eaf3fc · #c1cbd6 · #949fab · #1a2736 · #000613 · #ffa600

Complementary

The opposite hue on the perceptual wheel, tempered to field strength — warm/cool tension without vibration.

#d4d9b4 · #ffa600 · #cd977b · #207d98 · #2e3c5d · #051311

Split-complementary

The complement's two neighbours instead of the complement itself — strong contrast with a lower clash risk.

#ecceea · #ffa600 · #7cadc2 · #756ac6 · #40344b · #200803

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel; the anchor leads and the other two are held at supporting strength.

#cbfefa · #ffa600 · #00b7b2 · #7f3aa5 · #3d0058 · #000202

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs offset by 90° — the richest chord, kept usable by a strict lightness hierarchy.

#d5fde7 · #ffa600 · #3aba84 · #0061ae · #4a0038 · #000619

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#FFB450 · #FFC275 · #FFCF94 · #FFDBB1 · #FFE7CC

Shades

#D18700 · #A56A00 · #7B4D00 · #533300 · #2F1A00

Muted

#F2AC50 · #E4B174 · #D6B691

Using Cheese

Its chroma is high enough to carry accents, calls to action, and focal moments; large fields of it will dominate a composition. In palettes it pairs most predictably with its tonal ramp and analogous neighbors; reserve the complementary hue for small, deliberate contrast.