Vibrant Amber
#d1902e
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d1902e
RGB
209, 144, 46
OKLCh
70.2% 0.134 72.6°
CIELAB (D50)
65.2, 19.4, 58.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 52.3; on black, Lc -49.5. 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 19.2 and 19.6 and 21.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a46b00 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d1902e
protanopia
#99992f · ΔE00 19.2
deuteranopia
#a7a726 · ΔE00 19.6
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 21.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFuel Yellow at ΔE00 0.681: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fuel YellowΔE00 0.681 · #d19033
- JackpotΔE00 1.44 · #d19431
- Golden OrangeΔE00 1.479 · #d7942d
- Autumn BlazeΔE00 1.718 · #d9922e
- Leprous BrownΔE00 1.983 · #d99631
- ButtercupΔE00 1.987 · #da9429
- Hint of CaramelΔE00 2.102 · #d5933d
- Bugle CallΔE00 2.109 · #d3973c
- Alameda OchreΔE00 2.162 · #ca9234
- Saimin Noodle SoupΔE00 2.268 · #d39733
- Turmeric TeaΔE00 2.277 · #d88e2d
- Chicken MasalaΔE00 2.325 · #cc8822
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.