Lava Pit
#e46f34
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e46f34
RGB
228, 111, 52
OKLCh
67.1% 0.162 44.8°
CIELAB (D50)
60.7, 43.8, 53.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.2; on black, Lc -43.5. 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 32.5 and 34.4 and 37.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.17:1 — large text only
Black text
6.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c6540e 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
#e46f34
protanopia
#838336 · ΔE00 32.5
deuteranopia
#9e9e27 · ΔE00 34.4
tritanopia
#b5b500 · ΔE00 37.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInvigorate at ΔE00 0.714: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- InvigorateΔE00 0.714 · #e47237
- Camel RedΔE00 1.226 · #e5743b
- Lava LampΔE00 1.386 · #eb7135
- Glazed CarrotΔE00 1.527 · #e9692c
- Northern Barrens DustΔE00 1.611 · #de743c
- Celosia OrangeΔE00 1.934 · #e76a35
- Harvest HazeΔE00 1.942 · #de6931
- Lusty OrangeΔE00 1.953 · #e26d28
- Knockout OrangeΔE00 2.083 · #e16f3e
- SorbusΔE00 2.225 · #dd6b38
- Field PoppyΔE00 2.494 · #d86f3c
- Orange ShotΔE00 2.538 · #dd7744
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.