Campfire
#ce5f38
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ce5f38
RGB
206, 95, 56
OKLCh
61.6% 0.151 39.4°
CIELAB (D50)
54.2, 43.1, 43.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.2; on black, Lc -35.4. 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 32.0 and 34.5 and 38.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.95:1 — large text only
Black text
5.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c3552e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ce5f38
protanopia
#737339 · ΔE00 32.0
deuteranopia
#8c8c2f · ΔE00 34.5
tritanopia
#a2a200 · ΔE00 38.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChilean Fire at ΔE00 0.794: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chilean FireΔE00 0.794 · #d05e34
- EcstasyΔE00 1.254 · #c96138
- Reed MaceΔE00 1.299 · #cd5e3c
- Sweet MandarinΔE00 1.304 · #d35e3a
- Vermilion WaxcapΔE00 1.365 · #d46036
- Hashut CopperΔE00 1.666 · #c9643b
- Zōng Hóng RedΔE00 1.884 · #ca6641
- CivaraΔE00 2.009 · #c56138
- Robust OrangeΔE00 2.155 · #c4633e
- KoiΔE00 2.189 · #d2663b
- TerracottaΔE00 2.324 · #cb6843
- Citrus NotesΔE00 2.324 · #d26643
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.