Ridgeback
#ef985c
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ef985c
RGB
239, 152, 92
OKLCh
75.6% 0.129 54.0°
CIELAB (D50)
71.1, 29.5, 45.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.2; on black, Lc -58.0. 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 25.7 and 27.0 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b36121 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
#ef985c
protanopia
#a5a55d · ΔE00 25.7
deuteranopia
#b7b757 · ΔE00 27.0
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTopaz Yellow at ΔE00 0.859: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Topaz YellowΔE00 0.859 · #eb975e
- Outgoing OrangeΔE00 1.912 · #e6955f
- Bronze CupΔE00 1.928 · #eb9552
- ToucanΔE00 2.039 · #f09650
- Fading TorchΔE00 2.151 · #f69a54
- Bergamot OrangeΔE00 2.189 · #f59d59
- Faded OrangeΔE00 2.278 · #f0944d
- Tan HideΔE00 2.305 · #fa9d5a
- Sabre-Toothed TigerΔE00 2.325 · #e69656
- Holland TulipΔE00 2.336 · #f89851
- Brushed OrangeΔE00 2.35 · #f8a060
- Monarch OrangeΔE00 2.408 · #efa06b
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.