Sunset Blaze

#e95e2a

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

Hex

#e95e2a

RGB

233, 94, 42

OKLCh

65.3% 0.184 39.3°

CIELAB (D50)

58.3, 53.1, 56.0

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 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.1; on black, Lc -40.6. 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 36.4 and 38.8 and 42.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.44:1 — large text only

Black text

6.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d24809 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

#e95e2a

protanopia

#79792d · ΔE00 36.4

deuteranopia

#999915 · ΔE00 38.8

tritanopia

#b4b400 · ΔE00 42.0

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 1.053: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.