Golden Hour
#f1b457
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f1b457
RGB
241, 180, 87
OKLCh
80.9% 0.130 75.5°
CIELAB (D50)
77.8, 16.1, 55.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.4; on black, Lc -68.2. 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 17.5 and 17.9 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16c00 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
#f1b457
protanopia
#bcbc58 · ΔE00 17.5
deuteranopia
#c8c853 · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#d5d500 · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCasablanca at ΔE00 0.552: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CasablancaΔE00 0.552 · #f0b253
- Sense of WonderΔE00 1.102 · #edb159
- Goldenrod FieldΔE00 1.141 · #f0b053
- Deep FriedΔE00 1.197 · #f0b054
- CrunchΔE00 1.402 · #f2b95f
- CheaterΔE00 1.696 · #eeb15d
- Amber YellowΔE00 1.837 · #fab75a
- Mango MargaritaΔE00 1.849 · #f7b74e
- GoldsmithΔE00 1.9 · #eeb550
- Turbinado SugarΔE00 1.924 · #f9bb59
- Shiny TrumpetΔE00 1.962 · #ecae58
- Cochin ChickenΔE00 2.046 · #f8b862
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.