HueComb

Atomic Orange

#f88605

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

Hex

#f88605

RGB

248, 134, 5

OKLCh

73.2% 0.176 57.1°

CIELAB (D50)

68.0, 39.9, 73.6

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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.5; on black, Lc -53.5. 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 29.9 and 30.4 and 32.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b66000 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#f88605

protanopia

#99990e · ΔE00 29.9

deuteranopia

#b2b200 · ΔE00 30.4

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 32.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isÀ l’Orange at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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