HueComb

Clementine

#e96e00

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

Hex

#e96e00

RGB

233, 110, 0

OKLCh

67.4% 0.178 50.2°

CIELAB (D50)

61.1, 45.5, 69.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.7; on black, Lc -44.1. 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 32.6 and 33.2 and 35.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.14:1 — large text only

Black text

6.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c05900 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.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e96e00

protanopia

#848409 · ΔE00 32.6

deuteranopia

#9f9f00 · ΔE00 33.2

tritanopia

#b8b800 · 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 isOchre Spice at ΔE00 0.446: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Ochre SpiceΔE00 0.446 · #e96d03
  • Accent OrangeΔE00 0.794 · #e56d00
  • Thai MangoΔE00 1.367 · #e77200
  • Epicurean OrangeΔE00 1.729 · #ea6a0a
  • Martian ColonyΔE00 1.957 · #e5750f
  • Supernatural SaffronΔE00 2.182 · #ef760e
  • Therapeutic ToucanΔE00 2.31 · #ee7711
  • Royal Flycatcher CrestΔE00 2.599 · #ee6600
  • Orange GluttonyΔE00 2.673 · #ee7722
  • Mee-hua SunsetΔE00 2.675 · #ee7700
  • Autumn LandscapeΔE00 2.839 · #e47227
  • Gold OrangeΔE00 2.932 · #db7210

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