HueComb

Basketball

#ee6730

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ee6730

RGB

238, 103, 48

OKLCh

67.3% 0.180 40.8°

CIELAB (D50)

60.7, 51.1, 55.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 86% 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 58.1; on black, Lc -43.7. 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 35.6 and 38.0 and 41.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.17:1 — large text only

Black text

6.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cf4b04 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

#ee6730

protanopia

#808032 · ΔE00 35.6

deuteranopia

#9f9f1f · ΔE00 38.0

tritanopia

#baba00 · ΔE00 41.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlaming Orange at ΔE00 0.826: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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