Tiger Lily
#e1583f
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e1583f
RGB
225, 88, 63
OKLCh
63.6% 0.176 32.4°
CIELAB (D50)
56.1, 53.4, 43.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.7; on black, Lc -37.9. 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 35.9 and 39.7 and 45.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.70:1 — large text only
Black text
5.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#d04830 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
#e1583f
protanopia
#737341 · ΔE00 35.9
deuteranopia
#929235 · ΔE00 39.7
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 45.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPimento at ΔE00 1.611: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- PimentoΔE00 1.611 · #dc5d47
- Scarlet SunΔE00 1.685 · #da5640
- Festival OrangeΔE00 1.734 · #de5e3f
- OrangeadeΔE00 1.846 · #e35435
- Mandarin RedΔE00 1.853 · #e84f3c
- Mod OrangeΔE00 1.877 · #d8583c
- Flame StitchΔE00 2.121 · #d65d45
- Energetic OrangeΔE00 2.229 · #d85739
- Coral BurstΔE00 2.27 · #dd5544
- Red WireΔE00 2.284 · #db5947
- FireglowΔE00 2.356 · #d65e40
- Volcanic BlastΔE00 2.451 · #e15835
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.