Holy Cannoli
#db783e
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#db783e
RGB
219, 120, 62
OKLCh
67.3% 0.143 48.8°
CIELAB (D50)
61.2, 36.3, 48.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.6; on black, Lc -44.2. 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 29.0 and 30.6 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.10:1 — large text only
Black text
6.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc5c1d 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
#db783e
protanopia
#88883f · ΔE00 29.0
deuteranopia
#9e9e36 · ΔE00 30.6
tritanopia
#b2b200 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJapanese Koi at ΔE00 0.904: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Japanese KoiΔE00 0.904 · #db7842
- Citrus BlastΔE00 1.35 · #e1793a
- Jaffa OrangeΔE00 1.419 · #d87839
- Northern Barrens DustΔE00 1.459 · #de743c
- Carrot StickΔE00 1.571 · #df7836
- Orange ShotΔE00 1.848 · #dd7744
- Snobby ShoreΔE00 1.893 · #dd7733
- Clockwork OrangeΔE00 2.205 · #e07630
- JaffaΔE00 2.22 · #e27945
- Orange OchreΔE00 2.239 · #da7631
- Solar FlareΔE00 2.272 · #e67c41
- InvigorateΔE00 2.367 · #e47237
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.