Orange — 11-step color scale

Orange (#ffa500) sits at 500, untouched. Every other step is Orange composited over white or black at a decreasing opacity, so the whole ramp stays in one hue family instead of drifting toward another color at the ends.

Open Orange in the generator

8%50

24%100

40%200

56%300

80%400

100%500your color

80%600

56%700

40%800

24%900

8%950

Each step is the base composited over white or black at the opacity shown.#ffa500

For text that needs to pass AA on white, 700, 800, 900, 950 clear the 4.5:1 line. On a dark surface, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 do.

Semantic colors from Orange

Success, warning, error and the rest are derived from Orange itself, then checked so they stay distinguishable from the base — and from each other — under the three types of color blindness. The distance below is CIEDE2000 after each simulation.

Derived from #ffa500

Suggested	Protanopia	Deuteranopia	Tritanopia
success#70c757	5.5	10.3	52.3
warning#fe8438	8.6	5.9	7.6
error#f87cc5	48.6	39.6	8.7
discovery#81adff	54.9	58.7	61.6
info#00c3db	43.9	50.4	56.3
neutral#8c8373	25.8	29.0	23.3

CIEDE2000 distance from the base under each simulation. The lowest of the three decides, and a dot marks the ones that land under 11.

The success suggestion starts out colliding with Orange under Protanopia — ΔE₀₀ 5.5, below the 11 threshold — so the engine shifts its hue within the success family until the pair pulls apart again.

Export Orange

The same five formats the generator produces, for this scale. Copy any block, or open the tool to tweak the ramp first.

CSS

:root {
  --color-color-50: #fff8eb;
  --color-color-100: #ffe9c2;
  --color-color-200: #ffdb99;
  --color-color-300: #ffcd70;
  --color-color-400: #ffb733;
  --color-color-500: #ffa500;
  --color-color-600: #cc8400;
  --color-color-700: #8f5c00;
  --color-color-800: #664200;
  --color-color-900: #3d2800;
  --color-color-950: #140d00;
}

SCSS

$color-color-50: #fff8eb;
$color-color-100: #ffe9c2;
$color-color-200: #ffdb99;
$color-color-300: #ffcd70;
$color-color-400: #ffb733;
$color-color-500: #ffa500;
$color-color-600: #cc8400;
$color-color-700: #8f5c00;
$color-color-800: #664200;
$color-color-900: #3d2800;
$color-color-950: #140d00;

JavaScript

export const color = {
  50: '#fff8eb',
  100: '#ffe9c2',
  200: '#ffdb99',
  300: '#ffcd70',
  400: '#ffb733',
  500: '#ffa500',
  600: '#cc8400',
  700: '#8f5c00',
  800: '#664200',
  900: '#3d2800',
  950: '#140d00',
};

JSON

{
  "color": {
    "50": "#fff8eb",
    "100": "#ffe9c2",
    "200": "#ffdb99",
    "300": "#ffcd70",
    "400": "#ffb733",
    "500": "#ffa500",
    "600": "#cc8400",
    "700": "#8f5c00",
    "800": "#664200",
    "900": "#3d2800",
    "950": "#140d00"
  }
}

Figma Variables

{
  "color": {
    "50": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.9725490196078431,
          0.9215686274509803
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFF8EB"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:1",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "100": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.9137254901960784,
          0.7607843137254902
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFE9C2"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:2",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "200": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.8588235294117647,
          0.6
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFDB99"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:3",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "300": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.803921568627451,
          0.4392156862745098
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFCD70"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:4",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.7176470588235294,
          0.2
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFB733"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:5",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "500": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.6470588235294118,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFA500"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:6",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "600": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.8,
          0.5176470588235295,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#CC8400"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:7",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "700": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.5607843137254902,
          0.3607843137254902,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#8F5C00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:8",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "800": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.4,
          0.25882352941176473,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#664200"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:9",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "900": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.23921568627450981,
          0.1568627450980392,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#3D2800"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:10",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "950": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.0784313725490196,
          0.050980392156862744,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#140D00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:11",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    }
  },
  "$extensions": {
    "com.figma.modeName": "Value"
  }
}

Open Orange in the generator How the scale is built