Thai Hot #FE1C06

Thai Hot (#FE1C06) is a mid-tone, vivid red with an OKLCH hue of 30°, lightness 0.63 and chroma 0.25. 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#FE1C06
RGBrgb(254, 28, 6)
HSLhsl(5, 99%, 51%)
HSVhsv(5, 98%, 100%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 89%, 98%, 0%)
CIE Lablab(53.9 77.3 65.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.633 0.250 30)

How Thai Hot behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Thai Hot is virtually unchanged; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 0.7), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Thai Hot 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 3.9:1 and against black 5.38:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text.

Colors that go with Thai Hot

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.

#ffd8d1 · #ff9b8b · #fe1c06 · #cf0e00 · #920500 · #5a0000

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.

#fa9100 · #f96b00 · #fe1c06 · #de004d · #ba0066 · #970073

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.

#d0a03f · #fe1c06 · #cb1000 · #694b00 · #6b0100 · #291b00

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.

#00dcf7 · #fe1c06 · #905950 · #862116 · #5e0000 · #310000

Quiet Support

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

#d8f9ff · #c39a93 · #fe1c06 · #5d7478 · #48211b · #000305

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.

#e6f5f8 · #bdcdd0 · #8ea2a5 · #102b2f · #00080b · #fe1c06

Complementary

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

#dbdbb5 · #c586a5 · #fe1c06 · #1a6784 · #2a3e6b · #030f27

Split-complementary

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

#dbccee · #6badaa · #fe1c06 · #3d6485 · #313d5d · #1d040f

Triadic

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

#d3ffdb · #00c65c · #fe1c06 · #3f52fe · #16008f · #000200

Tetradic

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

#ebfac1 · #98b400 · #fe1c06 · #007e8e · #3e0071 · #000305

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#FF5D48 · #FF8370 · #FFA292 · #FFBEB2 · #FFD8D1

Shades

#D40F00 · #AA0800 · #820300 · #5C0000 · #390000

Muted

#E94B39 · #D36353 · #BB7569

Using Thai Hot

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.

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