What two colors make peach?

Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna. Titanium White leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts an 89% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

How do you make peach paint lighter without losing the hue?

Lighten in small steps and compare against the target each time. Chromilla's palette struggles with a lighter peach (#FFE5D2) in acrylic: Chromilla's model predicts a 78% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Why does peach look different when acrylic dries?

Acrylic binder looks milky while wet and clears as it dries, so the dried film reads darker. Chromilla's model applies a 10% value shift for acrylic, so the wet mix #F5CAAB is predicted to dry to about #E0B698. Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.

What is the hex code for peach?

Chromilla uses #F3C6A5 as the target for peach. The acrylic recipe is predicted to dry to about #E0B698.

Can I mix peach without black?

Yes. Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses no black: 94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna.

How to mix

Peach paint in acrylic, oil and watercolor, compared

Real pigment ratios for peach (#F3C6A5) in acrylic, oil and watercolor. The recipes below come straight from Chromilla’s mixer, calibrated to real manufacturer paint data.

Quick answer

To mix peach (#F3C6A5) in acrylic (oil and watercolor are compared below), use 94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna. Chromilla's model predicts an 89% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out. Chromilla is a web-based paint color mixer that turns any color, from a photo, the camera or a hex code, into exact paint-tube ratios for acrylic, oil and watercolor, using Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing and aiming at the color after it dries.

Peach in acrylic, oil and watercolor, side by side (dry match by Chromilla's color model, not a measured paint-out)
Medium	Tubes and parts	Predicted dry match	Drying
Acrylic	94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna	89%	Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
Oil	94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna	97%	Dries true to color.
Watercolor	94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna	90%	Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.

How we calculated this: Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing, then a per-medium dry shift, scored with CIEDE2000. Method and accuracy benchmark. Last checked August 2026.

Terms used here: Dry shift, Value, Kubelka-Munk, Delta E (dE2000), Transparency, Pigment code, Tint.

Target color

Peach

#F3C6A5

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Recipes by medium

Checked August 2026

Generic pigment ratios, the same ones the Chromilla mixer solves for. Open the mixer to swap in your own brand and tubes.

acrylic

Pigment recipe

89% when dry

Wet mix

#F5CAAB

1. Titanium White (PW6)94%
2. Cadmium Red (PR108)3%
3. Burnt Sienna (PBr7)3%

Dry-down

Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.

oil

Pigment recipe

97% when dry

Wet mix

#F5CAAB

1. Titanium White (PW6)94%
2. Cadmium Red (PR108)3%
3. Burnt Sienna (PBr7)3%

Dry-down

Dries true to color.

watercolour

Pigment recipe

90% when dry

Wet mix

#F5CAAB

1. Titanium White (PW6)94%
2. Cadmium Red (PR108)3%
3. Burnt Sienna (PBr7)3%

Dry-down

Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.

Common mistakes when mixing peach

Peach is a warm, very light coral, and treating it as 'orange plus a lot of white' usually turns it chalky. A better route is a small amount of warm red-orange with white and a touch of yellow, added in that order, so the undertone stays warm instead of drifting pink. If your peach keeps reading as pink rather than peach, you likely need more yellow, not less red.

Exact single-medium recipes

Straight-to-the-ratio versions of peach in each medium, from the Chromilla mix library.

Why the three mediums differ for peach

acrylic carries a 10% value shift on drying in Chromilla's model (dries slightly darker and a touch warmer), so the acrylic mix is predicted to dry to #E0B698.
oil dries true to color in Chromilla's model, so the oil mix is predicted to dry to #F5CAAB.
watercolor carries a 8% value shift on drying in Chromilla's model (dries slightly darker and a touch cooler), so the watercolor mix is predicted to dry to #E0BA9F.
In watercolor the paper is the white, so lighter versions come from adding water rather than white paint.

Acrylic recipe in detail

Peach in acrylic: tube ratios, and ml for a 100 ml batch
Paint	Pigment	Share	100 ml batch
Titanium White	PW6	94%	94 ml
Cadmium Red	PR108	3%	3 ml
Burnt Sienna	PBr7	3%	3 ml

Variations on Peach (acrylic)

Each variation is its own target (lighter and darker move OKLCH lightness by 0.08; warmer and cooler turn the hue 12 degrees toward red or blue), solved fresh.

Lighter Peach

#FFE5D2

Not a confident recipe: the closest mix is 97% Titanium White and 3% Burnt Umber, and chromilla's model predicts a 78% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Darker Peach

#D8AD8C

84% Titanium White, 13% Burnt Umber and 3% Cadmium Red. Chromilla's model predicts an 88% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Warmer Peach

#F7C3AB

91% Titanium White, 5% Cadmium Red and 4% Yellow Ochre. Chromilla's model predicts an 87% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Cooler Peach

#F7C3AB

91% Titanium White, 5% Cadmium Red and 4% Yellow Ochre. Chromilla's model predicts an 87% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Peach questions

What two colors make peach?: Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna. Titanium White leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts an 89% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
How do you make peach paint lighter without losing the hue?: Lighten in small steps and compare against the target each time. Chromilla's palette struggles with a lighter peach (#FFE5D2) in acrylic: Chromilla's model predicts a 78% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
Why does peach look different when acrylic dries?: Acrylic binder looks milky while wet and clears as it dries, so the dried film reads darker. Chromilla's model applies a 10% value shift for acrylic, so the wet mix #F5CAAB is predicted to dry to about #E0B698. Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
What is the hex code for peach?: Chromilla uses #F3C6A5 as the target for peach. The acrylic recipe is predicted to dry to about #E0B698.
Can I mix peach without black?: Yes. Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses no black: 94% Titanium White, 3% Cadmium Red and 3% Burnt Sienna.

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