Flamenco
#ea8645
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ea8645
RGB
234, 134, 69
OKLCh
71.7% 0.146 51.3°
CIELAB (D50)
66.3, 35.5, 51.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.8; on black, Lc -51.1. 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 28.7 and 30.2 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc5c0e 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
#ea8645
protanopia
#969646 · ΔE00 28.7
deuteranopia
#abab3d · ΔE00 30.2
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZodiac Constellation at ΔE00 0.937: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Zodiac ConstellationΔE00 0.937 · #ee8844
- Construction ZoneΔE00 0.972 · #ee8442
- MuskmelonΔE00 1.045 · #e98447
- Snappy HappyΔE00 1.587 · #eb8239
- Acapulco SunΔE00 1.596 · #eb8a44
- Autumn GlimmerΔE00 1.658 · #e9874e
- Goku OrangeΔE00 1.659 · #f0833a
- Cheddar CheeseΔE00 1.704 · #f0843a
- Poppy GlowΔE00 1.83 · #f18c49
- PizazzΔE00 1.89 · #e57f3d
- West SideΔE00 1.969 · #e5823a
- Orange PoppyΔE00 2.044 · #e68750
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.