#E68313 is a mid-toned, warm yellow. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded, bold and ownable. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #E68313 works with other colors. Named schemes with #E68313 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 #E68313 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 #E68313 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #E68313;
--color-base-rgb: 230 131 19;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(70.3% 0.161 59.9);
--color-50: #FEF8F0;
--color-100: #FDECD8;
--color-200: #F9D9B4;
--color-300: #EEBB81;
--color-400: #DF9E53;
--color-500: #C57F30;
--color-600: #96642C;
--color-700: #6A4A25;
--color-800: #45321C;
--color-900: #2A1F13;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cadmium-orange: {
50: '#FEF8F0',
100: '#FDECD8',
200: '#F9D9B4',
300: '#EEBB81',
400: '#DF9E53',
500: '#C57F30',
600: '#96642C',
700: '#6A4A25',
800: '#45321C',
900: '#2A1F13',
},
}
$base: #E68313; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF8F0; $base-100: #FDECD8; $base-200: #F9D9B4; $base-300: #EEBB81; $base-400: #DF9E53; $base-500: #C57F30; $base-600: #96642C; $base-700: #6A4A25; $base-800: #45321C; $base-900: #2A1F13; $base-hover: #B96A0F; $base-subtle: #F1DABF;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#E68313",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF8F0",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDECD8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F9D9B4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EEBB81",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DF9E53",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C57F30",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#96642C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6A4A25",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#45321C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A1F13",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}