HueComb

Cheddar

#ee9a09

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

Hex

#ee9a09

RGB

238, 154, 9

OKLCh

75.3% 0.161 70.5°

CIELAB (D50)

71.0, 26.0, 74.0

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 44.3; on black, Lc -57.8. 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 22.5 and 22.8 and 23.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.26:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.26:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a66a00 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

#ee9a09

protanopia

#a6a60f · ΔE00 22.5

deuteranopia

#b8b800 · ΔE00 22.8

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 23.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWiener Schnitzel at ΔE00 0.3: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Wiener SchnitzelΔE00 0.3 · #ee9900
  • Angry HornetΔE00 0.629 · #ee9911
  • Gold FusionΔE00 1.067 · #eb9600
  • Pumpkin YellowΔE00 1.074 · #e99a10
  • Autumn YellowΔE00 1.074 · #e99700
  • Kin GoldΔE00 1.46 · #f39800
  • Burning TrailΔE00 1.795 · #ee9922
  • Laughing OrangeΔE00 1.806 · #f49807
  • Clarified ButterΔE00 2.014 · #e69c23
  • Uplifting YellowΔE00 2.263 · #eb9724
  • DodgeRoll GoldΔE00 2.263 · #f79a12
  • Mad for MangoΔE00 2.489 · #f8a200

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