Honey Teriyaki
#ee6611
Teriyaki-glazed orange-brown for warm body text
About Honey Teriyaki
Honey Teriyaki looks like a lacquered glaze on orange peel, the kind of color you spot on a freshly brushed takeout box. It's warm, but not fiery. Compared to Basketball, it's less restrained and more syrupy, with deeper orange saturation and a softer glow instead of that mid-ground calm. Versus Flaming Orange, it sits a touch lower in lightness and feels more caramel than flame, so it reads friendlier and slower.
I drop it into dashboards and media player controls when I want the primary state to feel appetizing, not urgent. It also works well for restaurant ordering screens, logistics status chips, and thumbnail accents where you need attention that still feels human. It's the one you reach for when you want warmth without the edge, unlike Firecracker which comes in sharper and hotter.
Keep big fills to branded panels or headers; Honey Teriyaki can look heavy when it's stretched too far. Pair it with clean cool grays and off-whites to keep that glaze-like warmth from turning muddy.
Code snippets
Copy this color into your project.
Contrast checker
WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.
On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
Variations
Shades
Darker variations, created by mixing toward black.
Tints
Lighter variations, created by mixing toward white.
Tones
Muted variations, created by reducing saturation.
Hues
Hue rotations around the color wheel.
Temperatures
Warm and cool shifts of this color.
Color harmonies
Suggested palettes
Palettes built around this color.
Community palettes
Published palettes that include this color.