#cc5500It is a dark orange color having an approximate luminance of 51%. It has a hue value of 25° indicating that this is a warm color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Burnt Orange, Tenné (Tawny), Alloy Orange, Syracuse Orange, Chocolate (Web), Cocoa Brown, Sinopia, Flame, Persimmon and Spanish Orange. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color #cc5500 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (204, 85, 0)
#cc5500
hsl (25, 100%, 40%)
hsv (25, 100%, 80%)
lab (51.1, 44.2, 60.8)
xyz (28.1, 19.3, 2.2)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
The left side contains the reference color, while the right side shows the matched color. For each item there is a link to our partner MyPerfectColor.com, where you can buy corresponding paints.
Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #cc5500 respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark orange color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Raw Sienna, Mandarin, Mango Tango, Copper (Crayola), Light Salmon, Atomic Tangerine, Tan (Crayola), Tumbleweed, Apricot, Peach (Crayola), Desert Sand, Champagne Pink, Unbleached Silk, Almond and Misty Rose.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark orange color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Saddle Brown, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Russet, Chocolate (Traditional), Seal Brown, Liver (organ), Caput Mortuum, Black Bean, Bistre, Black Chocolate, Smoky Black and Black Coffee.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark orange color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Alloy Orange, Burnt Orange, Tenné (Tawny), Chocolate (Web), Brown Sugar, Liver (dogs), Copper, Café Au Lait, Liver Chestnut, Tuscan Tan, Cinereous, Beaver and Rocket Metallic.
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains warm colors. There are variants of rose, red and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burgundy, Crimson (UA), Light Coral, Congo Pink, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Chocolate (Traditional), Mango Tango, Strawberry Blonde, Field Drab, Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Satin Sheen Gold and Goldenrod.
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnt Orange, Tenné (Tawny), Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Blue Sapphire, Maximum Blue and Cerulean (Crayola).
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, azure, blue and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnt Orange, Tenné (Tawny), Cobalt Blue, Denim Blue, Maximum Blue Purple, Blue Bell, Blue-green (color Wheel), Brunswick Green, Keppel and Mountain Meadow.
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, green, cyan, azure and magenta colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Burnt Orange, Tenné (Tawny), Lincoln Green, UP Forest Green, Emerald, Paris Green, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Blue Sapphire, Maximum Blue, Cerulean (Crayola), Patriarch, Purple (Web), Pink Flamingo and Violet (Web).
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