Double Dragon

#fca044

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

Hex

#fca044

RGB

252, 160, 68

OKLCh

78.3% 0.151 62.0°

CIELAB (D50)

74.3, 29.8, 60.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

12 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 95% 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 39.6; on black, Lc -62.7. 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 25.5 and 26.4 and 28.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.25:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.25:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b06400 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

#fca044

protanopia

#aeae45 · ΔE00 25.5

deuteranopia

#c1c13b · ΔE00 26.4

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 28.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHawaiian Passion at ΔE00 0.831: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Hawaiian PassionΔE00 0.831 · #ffa03e
Radiation CarrotΔE00 1.009 · #ffa343
Exotic BlossomΔE00 1.13 · #fd9d43
Exotic FlowerΔE00 1.265 · #ffa24c
Chat OrangeΔE00 1.529 · #f79a3e
Blazing OrangeΔE00 1.531 · #ffa64f
SunshadeΔE00 1.631 · #fa9d49
Au GratinΔE00 1.673 · #ff9d45
Pumpkin VapourΔE00 1.704 · #ffa74f
Osage OrangeΔE00 1.708 · #f4a045
Gemini Mustard MomentoΔE00 1.837 · #fca750
Blazing BonfireΔE00 1.922 · #ffa035

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