Bronzed
#dd6633
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dd6633
RGB
221, 102, 51
OKLCh
64.7% 0.162 42.0°
CIELAB (D50)
57.9, 45.4, 50.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.8; on black, Lc -39.9. 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 33.2 and 35.3 and 38.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.49:1 — large text only
Black text
6.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c7521b 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
#dd6633
protanopia
#7b7b35 · ΔE00 33.2
deuteranopia
#969627 · ΔE00 35.3
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 38.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSorbus at ΔE00 1.173: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SorbusΔE00 1.173 · #dd6b38
- Harvest HazeΔE00 1.312 · #de6931
- Precious PumpkinΔE00 1.487 · #e16233
- Tangerine BlissΔE00 1.648 · #d86130
- Full of LifeΔE00 1.717 · #de5f2f
- Startling OrangeΔE00 1.92 · #e56131
- Vivid Red TangeloΔE00 2.025 · #df6124
- Vivid VermilionΔE00 2.162 · #e56024
- Celosia OrangeΔE00 2.178 · #e76a35
- Field PoppyΔE00 2.336 · #d86f3c
- Knockout OrangeΔE00 2.344 · #e16f3e
- SalamettiΔE00 2.35 · #e25e31
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.