HueComb

Precious Pumpkin

#e16233

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e16233

RGB

225, 98, 51

OKLCh

64.8% 0.170 39.7°

CIELAB (D50)

57.8, 48.7, 50.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.8; on black, Lc -39.8. 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 34.6 and 37.0 and 40.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.50:1 — large text only

Black text

6.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cb4e1c 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

#e16233

protanopia

#7a7a35 · ΔE00 34.6

deuteranopia

#969626 · ΔE00 37.0

tritanopia

#b0b000 · ΔE00 40.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStartling Orange at ΔE00 0.725: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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