Spiced up Orange
#e67a37
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e67a37
RGB
230, 122, 55
OKLCh
69.1% 0.155 49.3°
CIELAB (D50)
63.2, 39.4, 54.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.0; on black, Lc -46.8. 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 30.5 and 32.0 and 34.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.92:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c15801 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
#e67a37
protanopia
#8c8c39 · ΔE00 30.5
deuteranopia
#a4a42c · ΔE00 32.0
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 34.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCitrus Blast at ΔE00 1.077: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Citrus BlastΔE00 1.077 · #e1793a
- Crushed OrangeΔE00 1.176 · #e37730
- PizazzΔE00 1.289 · #e57f3d
- Carrot StickΔE00 1.392 · #df7836
- Salsa SizzleΔE00 1.473 · #e97b3e
- Blast BurnΔE00 1.517 · #e57e37
- Solar FlareΔE00 1.596 · #e67c41
- Clockwork OrangeΔE00 1.632 · #e07630
- Orange CrushΔE00 1.703 · #ee7733
- Sandy PeppersΔE00 1.799 · #df7b35
- Snobby ShoreΔE00 1.93 · #dd7733
- Autumn LandscapeΔE00 2.188 · #e47227
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.