Mandarin Rind
#f1903d
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f1903d
RGB
241, 144, 61
OKLCh
74.2% 0.151 57.4°
CIELAB (D50)
69.4, 33.1, 58.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.7; on black, Lc -55.4. 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 27.3 and 28.3 and 30.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b56100 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
#f1903d
protanopia
#9f9f3f · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#b4b433 · ΔE00 28.3
tritanopia
#c8c800 · ΔE00 30.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpicy Paella at ΔE00 0.541: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Spicy PaellaΔE00 0.541 · #f38f39
- SunΔE00 0.742 · #ef8e38
- Fire FlowerΔE00 1.043 · #f68f37
- Fall RiverΔE00 1.222 · #f59344
- Peril’s FlamesΔE00 1.28 · #ef8b38
- PhysalisΔE00 1.509 · #ef9548
- CaliforniaΔE00 1.634 · #e98c3a
- Caramelised OrangeΔE00 1.809 · #ef924a
- Furry LionΔE00 1.906 · #f09338
- Creole SauceΔE00 1.996 · #ee8833
- Goblin EyesΔE00 2.008 · #eb8931
- Joyful OrangeΔE00 2.031 · #fa9335
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.