Flaming Cauldron
#f6a374
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f6a374
RGB
246, 163, 116
OKLCh
78.7% 0.117 49.9°
CIELAB (D50)
74.7, 28.1, 37.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 39.0; on black, Lc -63.4. 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 25.0 and 26.5 and 32.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.02:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b06334 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
#f6a374
protanopia
#afaf75 · ΔE00 25.0
deuteranopia
#c0c070 · ΔE00 26.5
tritanopia
#d1d100 · ΔE00 32.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCopper River at ΔE00 0.752: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Copper RiverΔE00 0.752 · #f7a270
- Usugaki PersimmonΔE00 1.086 · #fca474
- Cheerful TangerineΔE00 1.382 · #fda471
- Pumpkin HueΔE00 1.382 · #f6a379
- Balinese SunsetΔE00 1.453 · #f1a177
- Hit PinkΔE00 1.504 · #fda470
- Young TangerineΔE00 1.664 · #ffa474
- Day at the ZooΔE00 1.743 · #ffa373
- Prairie SunΔE00 2.007 · #eea372
- PeachyΔE00 2.067 · #ffa67a
- Sunset PeachΔE00 2.103 · #f8a77f
- Larch BoleteΔE00 2.129 · #ffaa77
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.