Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
#e59d7b
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e59d7b
RGB
229, 157, 123
OKLCh
75.9% 0.098 46.1°
CIELAB (D50)
71.4, 24.8, 29.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.7; on black, Lc -58.5. 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 23.3 and 24.6 and 32.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.22:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a96645 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
#e59d7b
protanopia
#a7a77c · ΔE00 23.3
deuteranopia
#b6b678 · ΔE00 24.6
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 32.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMozzarella Covered Chorizo at ΔE00 0.621: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mozzarella Covered ChorizoΔE00 0.621 · #e39b7a
- Trumpet FlowerΔE00 1.065 · #e49977
- MameyΔE00 1.392 · #eba180
- Pecos SpiceΔE00 1.452 · #e1a080
- Baked SalmonΔE00 1.495 · #df9876
- CiaoΔE00 1.507 · #de9d7c
- Totally ToffeeΔE00 1.661 · #dd9977
- Peach SquaredΔE00 1.931 · #ec9d75
- Peachy TintΔE00 2.005 · #e3a381
- Light Amber OrangeΔE00 2.042 · #ed9a76
- Fame OrangeΔE00 2.082 · #db9c7b
- Peach NougatΔE00 2.1 · #e3a385
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.