HueComb

Mexican Standoff

#ec9f76

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ec9f76

RGB

236, 159, 118

OKLCh

76.9% 0.107 48.7°

CIELAB (D50)

72.6, 26.3, 33.6

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 41.9; on black, Lc -60.3. 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 24.0 and 25.4 and 32.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ac653d 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

#ec9f76

protanopia

#aaaa77 · ΔE00 24.0

deuteranopia

#baba73 · ΔE00 25.4

tritanopia

#caca00 · ΔE00 32.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Squared at ΔE00 0.678: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.