Sunray
#e3ab57
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e3ab57
RGB
227, 171, 87
OKLCh
77.7% 0.121 75.4°
CIELAB (D50)
74.1, 14.8, 50.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.9; on black, Lc -62.5. 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 16.7 and 17.0 and 19.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.05:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a16c00 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
#e3ab57
protanopia
#b2b258 · ΔE00 16.7
deuteranopia
#bebe53 · ΔE00 17.0
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 19.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAutumn Avenue at ΔE00 0.673: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Autumn AvenueΔE00 0.673 · #e3ad59
- Mellowed GoldΔE00 1.056 · #e2a94f
- Rip CordΔE00 1.171 · #dfab56
- Brown MustardΔE00 1.272 · #dfac59
- Indian YellowΔE00 1.279 · #e3a857
- Optimist GoldΔE00 1.47 · #e9ab51
- CameleerΔE00 1.495 · #e2af60
- Old WhiskeyΔE00 1.523 · #ddaa55
- Sahara ShadeΔE00 1.574 · #e2ab60
- Lemon PoppyΔE00 1.59 · #e1ae58
- Brass MeshΔE00 1.596 · #e1a84b
- Caramel EssenceΔE00 1.789 · #e3af64
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.