Hot Butter Color

#e69d00

Hot Butter is vibrant, warm-toned shade of orange. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with blue cyan, mid magenta or green cyan

Inverse Color #1962ff
Complementary Color #0048e6
Color Shade: orange (40.96° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 45.1% (better contrasting with white)
Hot Butter Color Sample
Hot Butter Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #e69d00

If you're looking for a similar orange shade, there are some better alternatives to Hot Butter Color. The Ukon Saffron color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a warm red bias. Consider a lighter and more soft alternative called Lightning Yellow (#fcc01e) for more calm effect. Try Princeton Orange as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#0048e6 is the best complementary color to Hot Butter. Blue cyan shades generally complement the orange hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #e69d00 complementary color is Blue Ribbon, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of mid red, orange, and mid yellow colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Tangerine are #e62a00 and #bbe600. Thus found on the left and right of #e69d00 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Scarlet and Lime colors as they work well with Hot Butter.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Hot Butter palette consists of #2a00e6 and #00bbe6 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#0048e6). Try Blue and Cerulean colors in combination with #e69d00, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #e69d00 offers a combination of violet and green cyan shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Hot Butter. Thus Electric Violet and Caribbean Green giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Hot Butter contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Blue Ribbon, Green, and Hollywood Cerise split by 90° on the color wheel. #e69d00 square combo is a palette of orange, mid green, blue cyan and mid magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Hot Butter tetradic combo consists of blue cyan complementary color (#0048e6) and two others. The Caribbean Green is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Red Ribbon – 120° from the complementary Blue Ribbon. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #00e69d and #e60048.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #e69d00 is made of 59% red, 41% green and 0% blue. In a HSL mode Hot Butter has a hue angle of 40.96°, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 45.1%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #e69d00 is made of 0% cyan, 28.63% magenta, 90.2% yellow and 9.8% black ink.

HEX #e69d00
RGB Decimal rgb(230,157,0)
RGB Percentage 59%, 41%, 0%
CMYK 0, 28.63, 90.2, 9.8
HSL hsl(40.96,100%,45.1%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(40.96,100%,90.2%)
CIE-LAB lab(70.1317,17.5438,74.3648)
XYZ xyz(44.6901,40.9369,5.5462)
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