HueComb

Illuminate Me

#eaa601

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

Hex

#eaa601

RGB

234, 166, 1

OKLCh

77.0% 0.160 79.1°

CIELAB (D50)

73.3, 18.2, 76.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 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 41.0; on black, Lc -61.3. 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 18.0 and 18.1 and 19.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.95:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.95:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9d6e00 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

#eaa601

protanopia

#afaf07 · ΔE00 18.0

deuteranopia

#bdbd00 · ΔE00 18.1

tritanopia

#cbcb00 · ΔE00 19.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlambrosia at ΔE00 0.602: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • FlambrosiaΔE00 0.602 · #e7a500
  • Groovy GiraffeΔE00 1.07 · #eeaa11
  • Welcoming WaspΔE00 1.129 · #eeaa00
  • Apricot Glazed ChickenΔE00 1.538 · #eeaa22
  • Filthy BrownΔE00 1.695 · #e8aa08
  • SquashΔE00 1.712 · #f2ab15
  • Lemon DreamΔE00 1.823 · #eea300
  • Orange SulphurΔE00 1.991 · #e8a320
  • Nectar of the GoddessΔE00 2.009 · #e3a701
  • Bilious BrownΔE00 2.1 · #e39f08
  • Orange PospsicleΔE00 2.187 · #f2a60f
  • Rowdy OrangeΔE00 2.273 · #eaa007

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