Toasted Husk
#ed8a53
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ed8a53
RGB
237, 138, 83
OKLCh
72.9% 0.140 48.4°
CIELAB (D50)
67.7, 35.3, 45.9
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 48.9; on black, Lc -53.0. 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 28.6 and 30.4 and 34.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.51:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bb5c21 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
#ed8a53
protanopia
#999954 · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#afaf4d · ΔE00 30.4
tritanopia
#c3c300 · ΔE00 34.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAutumn Glimmer at ΔE00 1.13: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Autumn GlimmerΔE00 1.13 · #e9874e
- Half-SmokeΔE00 1.263 · #ee8855
- Heat of SummerΔE00 1.408 · #e98d5b
- Orange PoppyΔE00 1.435 · #e68750
- Big Foot FeetΔE00 1.539 · #e88e5a
- Chinese LanternΔE00 1.725 · #f09056
- Aegean SkyΔE00 1.85 · #e48b59
- Indiana ClayΔE00 1.896 · #e88a5b
- GravlaxΔE00 1.983 · #ec834f
- MuskmelonΔE00 2.043 · #e98447
- Orange SliceΔE00 2.044 · #f4915c
- CrustaΔE00 2.174 · #f38653
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.