HueComb

Opulent Orange

#f16640

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

Hex

#f16640

RGB

241, 102, 64

OKLCh

67.8% 0.180 36.1°

CIELAB (D50)

61.1, 53.0, 48.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 57.5; on black, Lc -44.2. 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 36.2 and 39.4 and 44.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.13:1 — large text only

Black text

6.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d14821 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#f16640

protanopia

#808042 · ΔE00 36.2

deuteranopia

#a0a034 · ΔE00 39.4

tritanopia

#bcbc00 · ΔE00 44.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFirecracker at ΔE00 1.009: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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