Bourbon Peach
#ec842f
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ec842f
RGB
236, 132, 47
OKLCh
71.4% 0.158 55.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.0, 36.7, 60.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 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 29.0 and 30.1 and 32.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.66:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.91:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.91:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b95e00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ec842f
protanopia
#959531 · ΔE00 29.0
deuteranopia
#abab21 · ΔE00 30.1
tritanopia
#c1c100 · ΔE00 32.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNavel at ΔE00 0.154: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- NavelΔE00 0.154 · #ec8430
- Kid’s StuffΔE00 0.774 · #ed8732
- Creole SauceΔE00 1.034 · #ee8833
- Cadmium OrangeΔE00 1.215 · #ed872d
- Goblin EyesΔE00 1.692 · #eb8931
- Peril’s FlamesΔE00 1.754 · #ef8b38
- CarnivalΔE00 1.87 · #eb882c
- Chaat MasalaΔE00 2.135 · #ec7d2c
- Retro NectarineΔE00 2.146 · #ef7d16
- Consumed by FireΔE00 2.155 · #f5811a
- Snappy HappyΔE00 2.171 · #eb8239
- Iceland PoppyΔE00 2.184 · #f37e27
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.