#DF8510 is a mid-toned, warm yellow. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #DF8510 works with other colors. Named schemes with #DF8510 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
This palette keeps Cadmium Orange as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Cadmium Orange holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Cadmium Orange opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Cadmium Orange sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
Cadmium Orange is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Cadmium Orange carrying the quiet middle.
How #DF8510 actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #DF8510 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DF8510;
--color-base-rgb: 223 133 16;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(69.8% 0.155 63.6);
--color-50: #FEF8F0;
--color-100: #FDEDD8;
--color-200: #FADBB3;
--color-300: #F0BF7F;
--color-400: #E1A351;
--color-500: #C7852E;
--color-600: #97682B;
--color-700: #6B4C24;
--color-800: #45331C;
--color-900: #2A2013;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cadmium-orange: {
50: '#FEF8F0',
100: '#FDEDD8',
200: '#FADBB3',
300: '#F0BF7F',
400: '#E1A351',
500: '#C7852E',
600: '#97682B',
700: '#6B4C24',
800: '#45331C',
900: '#2A2013',
},
}
$base: #DF8510; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF8F0; $base-100: #FDEDD8; $base-200: #FADBB3; $base-300: #F0BF7F; $base-400: #E1A351; $base-500: #C7852E; $base-600: #97682B; $base-700: #6B4C24; $base-800: #45331C; $base-900: #2A2013; $base-hover: #B36B0C; $base-subtle: #F1DABC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DF8510",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF8F0",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDEDD8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FADBB3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F0BF7F",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E1A351",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C7852E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#97682B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6B4C24",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#45331C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A2013",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}