Koi

#d2663b

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#d2663b

RGB

210, 102, 59

OKLCh

63.2% 0.148 41.4°

CIELAB (D50)

56.2, 41.4, 44.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.8; on black, Lc -37.8. 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 31.4 and 33.6 and 37.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.68:1 — large text only

Black text

5.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c1572b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#d2663b

protanopia

#79793c · ΔE00 31.4

deuteranopia

#919132 · ΔE00 33.6

tritanopia

#a7a700 · ΔE00 37.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFresh Acorn at ΔE00 0.753: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Fresh AcornΔE00 0.753 · #d2693e
  • Vermilion WaxcapΔE00 1.485 · #d46036
  • Casa de OroΔE00 1.786 · #cf6837
  • Tangerine BlissΔE00 1.877 · #d86130
  • TerracottaΔE00 1.912 · #cb6843
  • Hashut CopperΔE00 1.924 · #c9643b
  • Flint Corn RedΔE00 1.955 · #d9623b
  • Zōng Hóng RedΔE00 2.018 · #ca6641
  • Chilean FireΔE00 2.062 · #d05e34
  • Citrus NotesΔE00 2.063 · #d26643
  • CampfireΔE00 2.189 · #ce5f38
  • Winter SunsetΔE00 2.25 · #ca6636

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