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Reference value (#FF9900), not official Amazon brand guidelines. Confirm against their materials before shipping in their identity.

The widely cited anchor color for Amazon is #FF9900 — a mid-tone orange tone in the Ecommerce sector. It fails AA on white at 2.14:1 and needs a darker step for text; on dark grounds it passes AA body text on black at 9.81:1.

Use it as a seed, not a rule: open it in the generator to derive scales, accessible text steps, and themes in the same family, and confirm the current value against Amazon's own materials before shipping anything in their identity. Sector neighbors like Alibaba, eBay, Etsy make useful comparisons when positioning against competitors.

Sector: Ecommerce

Values in every format

HEX
#ff9900
RGB
rgb(255, 153, 0)
HSL
hsl(36, 100%, 50%)
OKLCH
oklch(0.772 0.174 64.6)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 40%, 100%, 0%)

Scale derived from the anchor

  1. 50#fff6ed
  2. 100#ffe9d5
  3. 200#ffd6b0
  4. 300#ffbd7c
  5. 400 ★#ff9900
  6. 500#d98200
  7. 600#b86d00
  8. 700#965800
  9. 800#774500
  10. 900#5c3300
  11. 950#3a1e00

Measured contrast

on white2.14:1 · fails AA
on black9.81:1 · AA normal ✓