Flaming June
#eebb66
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#eebb66
RGB
238, 187, 102
OKLCh
82.1% 0.118 78.7°
CIELAB (D50)
79.3, 12.1, 49.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.1; on black, Lc -70.6. 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 15.0 and 15.3 and 18.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.76:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.94:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.94:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9d6e02 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
#eebb66
protanopia
#c2c267 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#cccc63 · ΔE00 15.3
tritanopia
#d6d600 · ΔE00 18.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLuscious Lemon at ΔE00 0.657: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Luscious LemonΔE00 0.657 · #eebd6a
- Mustard SauceΔE00 0.879 · #edbd68
- Mirabelle YellowΔE00 0.973 · #f3be67
- Pineapple CakeΔE00 1.376 · #edbb6e
- Buff YellowΔE00 1.396 · #f0b967
- CrunchΔE00 1.466 · #f2b95f
- Chandra CreamΔE00 1.496 · #ecba5d
- BrassoΔE00 1.581 · #f3bc6b
- Hawker’s GoldΔE00 1.706 · #f4c26c
- NatroliteΔE00 1.734 · #ebbc71
- Harvest GoldΔE00 1.744 · #eab76a
- Auric Armour GoldΔE00 1.801 · #e8bc6d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.