HueComb

Solar Flare

#e67c41

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e67c41

RGB

230, 124, 65

OKLCh

69.5% 0.150 47.6°

CIELAB (D50)

63.7, 38.7, 50.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.4; on black, Lc -47.4. 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 30.2 and 32.0 and 35.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bf5916 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e67c41

protanopia

#8d8d42 · ΔE00 30.2

deuteranopia

#a5a538 · ΔE00 32.0

tritanopia

#baba00 · ΔE00 35.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalsa Sizzle at ΔE00 0.637: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.