Mandarin
#f37a48
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f37a48
RGB
243, 122, 72
OKLCh
71.0% 0.162 42.1°
CIELAB (D50)
65.2, 44.9, 49.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.3; on black, Lc -49.6. 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 33.1 and 35.5 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.73:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.69:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.69:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c7521b 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
#f37a48
protanopia
#8f8f4a · ΔE00 33.1
deuteranopia
#aaaa3f · ΔE00 35.5
tritanopia
#c2c200 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOuni Red at ΔE00 0.911: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ouni RedΔE00 0.911 · #ee7948
- DebritoΔE00 1.19 · #ee7744
- Rich GardeniaΔE00 1.26 · #f57f4f
- Sizzling SunsetΔE00 1.705 · #eb7e4d
- Coral RoseΔE00 2.048 · #f3774d
- Precious PersimmonΔE00 2.095 · #ff7744
- Sagittarius Amber ArtefactΔE00 2.143 · #fa7f46
- Araigaki OrangeΔE00 2.287 · #ec8254
- Chinese OrangeΔE00 2.391 · #f37042
- Mythical OrangeΔE00 2.397 · #ff7f49
- Sassy SalmonΔE00 2.427 · #ee7c54
- Autumn SunsetΔE00 2.514 · #f38554
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.