California Girl Color

#fca716

California Girl 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 #0358e9
Complementary Color #166afb
Color Shade: orange (37.83° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 53.73% (better contrasting with white)
California Girl Color Sample
California Girl Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #fca716

If you're looking for a similar orange shade, there are some better alternatives to California Girl Color. The Joyful Orange 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 Creamy Sweet Corn (#f7c34c) for more calm effect. Try American Orange as it also a bit more vibrant and energetic.

Complementary Palette

#166afb is the best complementary color to California Girl. Blue cyan shades generally complement the orange hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #fca716 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 Sun are #fb3316 and #ddfb16. Thus found on the left and right of #fca716 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Scarlet and Chartreuse Yellow colors as they work well with California Girl.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary California Girl palette consists of #3416fb and #16ddfb colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#166afb). Try Blue and Bright Turquoise colors in combination with #fca716, 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 #fca716 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 California Girl. Thus Electric Violet and Spring Green giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of California Girl contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Blue Ribbon, Green, and Shocking Pink split by 90° on the color wheel. #fca716 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. California Girl tetradic combo consists of blue cyan complementary color (#166afb) and two others. The Spring Green is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Rose – 120° from the complementary Blue Ribbon. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #16fba7 and #fb166a.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #fca716 is made of 57% red, 38% green and 5% blue. In a HSL mode California Girl has a hue angle of 37.83°, a saturation of 97.46% and a lightness of 53.73%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #fca716 is made of 0% cyan, 33.33% magenta, 90.19% yellow and 1.18% black ink.

HEX #fca716
RGB Decimal rgb(252,167,22)
RGB Percentage 57%, 38%, 5%
CMYK 0, 33.33, 90.19, 1.18
HSL hsl(37.83,97.46%,53.73%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(37.83,91.27%,98.82%)
CIE-LAB lab(75.0708,21.8464,75.9645)
XYZ xyz(54.1084,48.3908,7.2476)
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