HueComb

Fire Ant

#be6400

An orange that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#be6400

RGB

190, 100, 0

OKLCh

59.7% 0.145 56.6°

CIELAB (D50)

52.5, 33.3, 60.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.3; on black, Lc -33.3. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 26.8 and 27.1 and 29.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.19:1 — large text only

Black text

5.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b66000 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#be6400

protanopia

#737305 · ΔE00 26.8

deuteranopia

#878700 · ΔE00 27.1

tritanopia

#999900 · ΔE00 29.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Coated Almond at ΔE00 1.099: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Sugar Coated AlmondΔE00 1.099 · #bb6611
  • Camel FurΔE00 1.193 · #bb6600
  • Hawaiian SunsetΔE00 1.526 · #c06714
  • CremaΔE00 1.674 · #c16104
  • Monkey KingΔE00 1.847 · #bf6414
  • Thai CurryΔE00 2.288 · #bd6b1c
  • Brown OrangeΔE00 2.484 · #b96902
  • Alloy OrangeΔE00 2.717 · #c46210
  • Honey GingerΔE00 2.739 · #ba6219
  • Light BrownΔE00 2.758 · #b5651d
  • Dry ClayΔE00 2.858 · #bd5c00
  • Dirty BrownΔE00 2.866 · #b5651e

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.