HueComb

Tangerine Tango

#ff9e4b

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

Hex

#ff9e4b

RGB

255, 158, 75

OKLCh

78.4% 0.150 58.3°

CIELAB (D50)

74.3, 32.3, 57.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 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 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 27.0 and 28.0 and 30.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b46100 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

#ff9e4b

protanopia

#adad4c · ΔE00 27.0

deuteranopia

#c1c143 · ΔE00 28.0

tritanopia

#d5d500 · ΔE00 30.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBittersweet at ΔE00 0.742: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • BittersweetΔE00 0.742 · #fea051
  • Au GratinΔE00 0.808 · #ff9d45
  • Orange HibiscusΔE00 0.992 · #ff9a45
  • SunshadeΔE00 1.054 · #fa9d49
  • Absolute ApricotΔE00 1.243 · #ff9944
  • Exotic BlossomΔE00 1.349 · #fd9d43
  • Exotic FlowerΔE00 1.371 · #ffa24c
  • KumquatΔE00 1.383 · #fb9942
  • Off-The-Leash OrangeΔE00 1.847 · #ffa259
  • Autumn SplendourΔE00 2.182 · #fe9a50
  • Double DragonΔE00 2.215 · #fca044
  • Clarified OrangeΔE00 2.322 · #fea15b

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