Gravlax
#ec834f
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ec834f
RGB
236, 131, 79
OKLCh
71.6% 0.145 45.8°
CIELAB (D50)
66.1, 38.2, 46.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.2; on black, Lc -50.7. 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 30.0 and 32.0 and 36.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#be5a22 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
#ec834f
protanopia
#949450 · ΔE00 30.0
deuteranopia
#abab48 · ΔE00 32.0
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 36.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrangevale at ΔE00 1.238: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- OrangevaleΔE00 1.238 · #e88354
- Half-SmokeΔE00 1.244 · #ee8855
- Sizzling SunsetΔE00 1.478 · #eb7e4d
- CrustaΔE00 1.483 · #f38653
- Araigaki OrangeΔE00 1.535 · #ec8254
- Autumn SunsetΔE00 1.669 · #f38554
- Mustard Crusted SalmonΔE00 1.906 · #ef8144
- Toasted HuskΔE00 1.983 · #ed8a53
- Autumn GlimmerΔE00 1.988 · #e9874e
- Orange PoppyΔE00 2.079 · #e68750
- Indiana ClayΔE00 2.113 · #e88a5b
- MuskmelonΔE00 2.402 · #e98447
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.