Goku Orange
#f0833a
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f0833a
RGB
240, 131, 58
OKLCh
71.9% 0.158 51.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.5, 39.0, 56.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.6; on black, Lc -51.3. 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 30.3 and 31.8 and 34.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#be5a00 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.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f0833a
protanopia
#95953c · ΔE00 30.3
deuteranopia
#adad2f · ΔE00 31.8
tritanopia
#c3c300 · ΔE00 34.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCheddar Cheese at ΔE00 0.353: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cheddar CheeseΔE00 0.353 · #f0843a
- Snappy HappyΔE00 0.971 · #eb8239
- Construction ZoneΔE00 1.221 · #ee8442
- Zodiac ConstellationΔE00 1.393 · #ee8844
- Peach FuryΔE00 1.507 · #f88435
- FlamencoΔE00 1.659 · #ea8645
- Hot OrangeΔE00 1.685 · #f4893d
- Sunset YellowΔE00 1.944 · #fa873d
- Chaat MasalaΔE00 1.957 · #ec7d2c
- Iceland PoppyΔE00 2.071 · #f37e27
- Beniukon BronzeΔE00 2.091 · #fb8136
- West SideΔE00 2.115 · #e5823a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.