HueComb

Goldfish

#f2ad62

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

Hex

#f2ad62

RGB

242, 173, 98

OKLCh

79.8% 0.122 66.8°

CIELAB (D50)

76.3, 20.5, 48.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.6; on black, Lc -65.9. 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 20.4 and 21.1 and 24.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.92:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a86810 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

#f2ad62

protanopia

#b7b763 · ΔE00 20.4

deuteranopia

#c5c55e · ΔE00 21.1

tritanopia

#d3d300 · ΔE00 24.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlazing Autumn at ΔE00 0.383: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.