HueComb

Burning Trail

#ee9922

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

Hex

#ee9922

RGB

238, 153, 34

OKLCh

75.2% 0.156 68.2°

CIELAB (D50)

70.8, 26.8, 69.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 95% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.6; on black, Lc -57.5. 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 23.3 and 23.7 and 25.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.22:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.22:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a96800 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

#ee9922

protanopia

#a6a625 · ΔE00 23.3

deuteranopia

#b7b70d · ΔE00 23.7

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 25.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUplifting Yellow at ΔE00 0.734: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Uplifting YellowΔE00 0.734 · #eb9724
  • Angry HornetΔE00 1.21 · #ee9911
  • Laughing OrangeΔE00 1.513 · #f49807
  • Kin GoldΔE00 1.589 · #f39800
  • DodgeRoll GoldΔE00 1.746 · #f79a12
  • Gold FusionΔE00 1.78 · #eb9600
  • CheddarΔE00 1.795 · #ee9a09
  • Wiener SchnitzelΔE00 1.889 · #ee9900
  • Nuclear MangoΔE00 1.891 · #ee9933
  • Yellow SeaΔE00 2.065 · #f49f35
  • Forceful OrangeΔE00 2.116 · #f29312
  • Autumn YellowΔE00 2.233 · #e99700

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