Home Color Guides What Colors Make Peach
Peach is orange that has been softened toward skin tone — which makes it one of the easiest custom colors to mix, because the whole recipe is orange plus white, tuned pink or yellow as you like. Three routes below, from the classic to the rosy version, every swatch computed.
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color-mix(in oklab, #ffa500 50%, #ffffff) Peach sits between orange and pink at high lightness — formally it is a light, slightly pink-shifted orange. Because nothing needs canceling (no complements fighting), the routes are simple tints: lighten orange with white, then bias the result toward pink or yellow to taste. No route here can go badly muddy.
That lightness is also the thing to protect: peach dies when it gets dark. If a blend slips toward salmon or apricot, walk it back with white, not with more orange.
Every result below is computed in a perceptual color space: the swatch is the blend your eye sees, with the HEX code next to it. Click any code to copy it.
Equal parts land on the classic peach — light, warm, skin-adjacent.
This is the textbook peach and the ratio to remember. More white pushes it toward cream; more orange pulls it toward apricot — both are fine neighbors, not mistakes.
Mixing the parents of orange gives a peach with a pink cast.
Pink is itself light red, so this route builds peach from its components and lands rosier than the direct one — the peach of blush palettes rather than fruit palettes.
The direct peach nudged pink — the blend portrait painters recognize.
A whisper of pink is what makes peach read as skin tone rather than fruit. Keep the pink small — at this lightness a little goes far.
Orange and white in equal parts — that is the whole classic recipe. For a rosier peach, mix pink and yellow instead, or add a touch of pink to the orange-white blend for a skin-tone version.
White paint with a small amount of orange, tuned with a touch of pink or yellow. Because peach is a light tint, start from mostly white and add orange gradually — it is much easier to darken than to walk back.
Peach is orange lightened and slightly pinked — same hue family, much lighter and softer. Orange plus white closes most of the gap; the remaining difference is that small pink bias.
Red and white — pink is a tint of red. Peach then follows with a little orange or yellow added to that pink, which is why pink plus yellow lands on peach above.