Tomato Bisque
#d15915
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d15915
RGB
209, 89, 21
OKLCh
60.9% 0.168 44.2°
CIELAB (D50)
53.4, 46.3, 58.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 67.2; on black, Lc -34.5. 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 33.3 and 34.7 and 37.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.08:1 — large text only
Black text
5.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c95104 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
#d15915
protanopia
#6f6f19 · ΔE00 33.3
deuteranopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 34.7
tritanopia
#a3a300 · ΔE00 37.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Bolognese at ΔE00 1.534: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hot BologneseΔE00 1.534 · #cc5511
- Rusty OrangeΔE00 1.688 · #cd5909
- TennéΔE00 2.129 · #cd5700
- Burnt OrangeΔE00 2.184 · #cc5500
- Bright DelightΔE00 2.309 · #cd5b26
- ExuberanceΔE00 2.322 · #d45b00
- Play SchoolΔE00 2.344 · #ce5924
- Raging LeafΔE00 2.354 · #dd5500
- Liselotte SyrupΔE00 2.425 · #dd5511
- Golden Lion TamarinΔE00 2.551 · #ca602a
- Harvest PumpkinΔE00 2.618 · #cd632a
- Deep OrangeΔE00 2.825 · #dc4d01
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.