Solar Ash
#cc6622
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc6622
RGB
204, 102, 34
OKLCh
62.1% 0.150 49.4°
CIELAB (D50)
55.1, 38.4, 54.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.2; on black, Lc -36.5. 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 29.8 and 31.1 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.82:1 — large text only
Black text
5.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bf5a0e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc6622
protanopia
#777724 · ΔE00 29.8
deuteranopia
#8e8e11 · ΔE00 31.1
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKohaku Amber at ΔE00 1.058: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Kohaku AmberΔE00 1.058 · #ca6924
- Chivalrous FoxΔE00 1.5 · #c7662a
- ChocolateΔE00 1.721 · #d2691e
- Fresh GingerbreadΔE00 1.774 · #d3691f
- Hot CinnamonΔE00 1.809 · #d1691c
- Desert SpiceΔE00 2.032 · #c66b30
- Kincha BrownΔE00 2.051 · #c66b27
- Brusque BrownΔE00 2.261 · #cc6611
- Harvest PumpkinΔE00 2.401 · #cd632a
- KvassΔE00 2.449 · #c7610f
- Hot WingsΔE00 2.478 · #d26e2d
- Christmas OrangeΔE00 2.532 · #d56c2b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.