Mellow Mango
#cc4400
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc4400
RGB
204, 68, 0
OKLCh
57.3% 0.182 39.3°
CIELAB (D50)
49.0, 53.2, 60.6
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 72.0; on black, Lc -29.7. 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 35.8 and 37.0 and 40.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.39:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc4400
protanopia
#616107 · ΔE00 35.8
deuteranopia
#808000 · ΔE00 37.0
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 40.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isŌkaihau Express at ΔE00 0.569: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ōkaihau ExpressΔE00 0.569 · #cd4600
- Vinaceous TawnyΔE00 1.128 · #c74300
- Tennis CourtΔE00 1.234 · #c8450c
- SinopiaΔE00 1.708 · #cb410b
- Fire BoltΔE00 1.856 · #cc4411
- Brick OrangeΔE00 2.247 · #c14a09
- Red PandaΔE00 2.709 · #c34b1b
- MahoganyΔE00 2.87 · #c04000
- Torii RedΔE00 3.05 · #db3e00
- Copper HopperΔE00 3.068 · #bf4000
- Lava SmoothieΔE00 3.097 · #d04014
- Flame of PrometheusΔE00 3.222 · #db3c02
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.