Persimmon
#e59b34
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e59b34
RGB
229, 155, 52
OKLCh
74.6% 0.143 70.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, 22.4, 62.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.4; on black, Lc -56.7. 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 21.1 and 21.5 and 23.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a66a00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e59b34
protanopia
#a6a635 · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#b5b52b · ΔE00 21.5
tritanopia
#c4c400 · ΔE00 23.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCulpeo at ΔE00 0.958: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CulpeoΔE00 0.958 · #e69b3a
- Intense YellowΔE00 1.206 · #e19c35
- Gold CrestΔE00 1.245 · #df9938
- Treacle FudgeΔE00 1.431 · #de9832
- Kingpin GoldΔE00 1.6 · #de9930
- Gilded LeavesΔE00 1.66 · #eba13c
- Lion KingΔE00 1.687 · #dd9933
- Life Is GoodΔE00 1.81 · #e19b42
- Clarified ButterΔE00 2.006 · #e69c23
- Uplifting YellowΔE00 2.03 · #eb9724
- Kikuchiba GoldΔE00 2.084 · #e29c45
- Gorse Yellow OrangeΔE00 2.095 · #e99a3c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.