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Microsoft brand colors

Microsoft publishes no color values. The Windows trademark guidelines run to a hundred pages on what may not be done to the logo without stating what color it is, and there is no design system page or press kit that fills the gap. So the four squares below are measured from the reference artwork rather than specified, and two versions of that artwork disagree slightly, which is why both are shown.

Every color

ColorRoleHexRGBHSLPantoneCMYKPreview
Orange Redprimary#F35325243, 83, 3713, 90%, 55%----Fill screen
Greensecondary#81BC06129, 188, 679, 94%, 38%----Fill screen
Bluesecondary#05A6F05, 166, 240199, 96%, 48%----Fill screen
Yellowaccent#FFBA08255, 186, 843, 100%, 52%----Fill screen
Wordmark Greyneutral dark#F3F3F3243, 243, 2430, 0%, 95%----Fill screen

Contrast pairs

Orange Red passes AA for body text on black, at 6.1 to 1.

Of 42 ordered pairs in this palette, 12 clear 4.5 to 1 for body text and 16 clear 3 to 1 for large text. Row is the text color, column is the background.

Text colorOrange RedGreenBlueYellowWordmark GreyWhiteBlack
Orange Red1.5Orange Red on Green, fails AA for body text1.3Orange Red on Blue, fails AA for body text2.0Orange Red on Yellow, fails AA for body text3.1Orange Red on Wordmark Grey, fails AA for body text3.5Orange Red on White, fails AA for body text6.1Orange Red on Black, passes AA for body text
Green1.5Green on Orange Red, fails AA for body text1.2Green on Blue, fails AA for body text1.4Green on Yellow, fails AA for body text2.1Green on Wordmark Grey, fails AA for body text2.3Green on White, fails AA for body text9.1Green on Black, passes AA for body text
Blue1.3Blue on Orange Red, fails AA for body text1.2Blue on Green, fails AA for body text1.6Blue on Yellow, fails AA for body text2.5Blue on Wordmark Grey, fails AA for body text2.7Blue on White, fails AA for body text7.7Blue on Black, passes AA for body text
Yellow2.0Yellow on Orange Red, fails AA for body text1.4Yellow on Green, fails AA for body text1.6Yellow on Blue, fails AA for body text1.5Yellow on Wordmark Grey, fails AA for body text1.7Yellow on White, fails AA for body text12.3Yellow on Black, passes AA for body text
Wordmark Grey3.1Wordmark Grey on Orange Red, fails AA for body text2.1Wordmark Grey on Green, fails AA for body text2.5Wordmark Grey on Blue, fails AA for body text1.5Wordmark Grey on Yellow, fails AA for body text1.1Wordmark Grey on White, fails AA for body text18.9Wordmark Grey on Black, passes AA for body text
White3.5White on Orange Red, fails AA for body text2.3White on Green, fails AA for body text2.7White on Blue, fails AA for body text1.7White on Yellow, fails AA for body text1.1White on Wordmark Grey, fails AA for body text21.0White on Black, passes AA for body text
Black6.1Black on Orange Red, passes AA for body text9.1Black on Green, passes AA for body text7.7Black on Blue, passes AA for body text12.3Black on Yellow, passes AA for body text18.9Black on Wordmark Grey, passes AA for body text21.0Black on White, passes AA for body text
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Other values you will see

The palette above is what Microsoft publishes. Below is what you will actually meet elsewhere, and where the two part company it is worth knowing which one you are looking at.

  • The 2012 identity artwork

    Commons holds a second file named for the 2012 logo. Every square differs by a few points per channel, and the wordmark is dark rather than light. This is the set repeated by most color aggregators.

    • Orange Red#F25022
    • Green#7FBA00
    • Blue#00A4EF
    • Yellow#FFB900
    • Wordmark Grey#737373

    An area measurement of the reference artwork, retrieved 2026-08-03

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