Pumpkin Pie
#e99e56
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e99e56
RGB
233, 158, 86
OKLCh
75.9% 0.126 62.8°
CIELAB (D50)
71.7, 23.8, 48.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.4; on black, Lc -58.8. 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 22.4 and 23.2 and 26.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac6612 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
#e99e56
protanopia
#a9a957 · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#b8b851 · ΔE00 23.2
tritanopia
#c8c800 · ΔE00 26.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSouth Haven at ΔE00 0.704: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- South HavenΔE00 0.704 · #e8a05a
- DoughnutΔE00 0.789 · #eda057
- Sunflower FieldΔE00 1.061 · #ea9d4f
- Colorado PeachΔE00 1.53 · #e6994c
- Apple CrispΔE00 1.636 · #e19c55
- Butternut PizazzΔE00 2.032 · #e59752
- Question Mark BlockΔE00 2.079 · #ef9a49
- Coffee WhipΔE00 2.09 · #df9d5b
- Autumn OrangeΔE00 2.18 · #ee9950
- Granary GoldΔE00 2.235 · #e99f4c
- Magic MelonΔE00 2.305 · #de9851
- Roasted SquashΔE00 2.355 · #e6a255
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.