Pastel Orange
#ff964f
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff964f
RGB
255, 150, 79
OKLCh
77.1% 0.152 52.5°
CIELAB (D50)
72.6, 36.3, 54.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 42.0; on black, Lc -60.2. 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 29.2 and 30.6 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc5c00 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
#ff964f
protanopia
#a6a650 · ΔE00 29.2
deuteranopia
#bdbd47 · ΔE00 30.6
tritanopia
#d2d200 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoney Carrot Cake at ΔE00 0.824: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Honey Carrot CakeΔE00 0.824 · #ff9955
- EncounterΔE00 0.926 · #ff9552
- Cocktail HourΔE00 1.309 · #fd9a52
- Autumn SplendourΔE00 1.435 · #fe9a50
- Holland TulipΔE00 1.653 · #f89851
- Tan HideΔE00 2.157 · #fa9d5a
- PapayaΔE00 2.22 · #fe985c
- Fading TorchΔE00 2.317 · #f69a54
- OrangishΔE00 2.348 · #fd8d49
- Rainbow TroutΔE00 2.536 · #ff975c
- Orange SpiceΔE00 2.586 · #fea060
- Fall RiverΔE00 2.806 · #f59344
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.