Tangerine (#F28500) is a light, highly saturated orange hue. A saturated orange with a citrus kick, used for energetic food and fitness brands.
In RGB it is made of 242 red, 133 green and 0 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 33° with 100% saturation and 47% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 72% with a chroma of 0.172. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 45% magenta, 100% yellow and 5% black.
As a text color on white, Tangerine has a contrast ratio of 2.58:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 8.13:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Tangerine as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 54 for black text and Lc -55 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #00B1FE, close to process cyan. Colors that look most similar are coral, bronze, orange. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 12), so its meaning mostly survives.