Fuego
#ee5533
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee5533
RGB
238, 85, 51
OKLCh
65.1% 0.195 34.0°
CIELAB (D50)
57.8, 58.7, 51.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.6; on black, Lc -40.1. 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 38.3 and 41.7 and 45.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.51:1 — large text only
Black text
5.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#d8401c 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
#ee5533
protanopia
#757535 · ΔE00 38.3
deuteranopia
#989822 · ΔE00 41.7
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 45.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBurning Tomato at ΔE00 1.222: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Burning TomatoΔE00 1.222 · #eb5030
- Benihi RedΔE00 1.282 · #f35336
- Day Glow OrangeΔE00 1.615 · #eb5c34
- Hot ShotΔE00 1.776 · #ec4f28
- Hot EmbersΔE00 1.979 · #f55931
- Sohi RedΔE00 2.011 · #e35c38
- Karaka OrangeΔE00 2.077 · #f04925
- OrangeadeΔE00 2.213 · #e35435
- Volcanic BlastΔE00 2.274 · #e15835
- Chinese GoldfishΔE00 2.276 · #f34723
- Flame AngelfishΔE00 2.537 · #fd4c29
- Tomato CurryΔE00 2.667 · #e84a2e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.