Jaffa
#e27945
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e27945
RGB
226, 121, 69
OKLCh
68.5% 0.146 45.5°
CIELAB (D50)
62.5, 38.8, 46.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.9; on black, Lc -45.9. 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 30.3 and 32.2 and 36.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bf5922 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
#e27945
protanopia
#8a8a46 · ΔE00 30.3
deuteranopia
#a1a13d · ΔE00 32.2
tritanopia
#b7b700 · ΔE00 36.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrange Shot at ΔE00 1.049: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Orange ShotΔE00 1.049 · #dd7744
- Camel RedΔE00 1.529 · #e5743b
- Japanese KoiΔE00 1.59 · #db7842
- Northern Barrens DustΔE00 1.712 · #de743c
- Solar FlareΔE00 1.791 · #e67c41
- InvigorateΔE00 2.07 · #e47237
- Salsa SizzleΔE00 2.144 · #e97b3e
- Holy CannoliΔE00 2.22 · #db783e
- Sizzling SunsetΔE00 2.26 · #eb7e4d
- DebritoΔE00 2.405 · #ee7744
- Citrus BlastΔE00 2.489 · #e1793a
- Ouni RedΔE00 2.548 · #ee7948
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.