Romesco
#f48101
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f48101
RGB
244, 129, 1
OKLCh
71.8% 0.176 56.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.4, 40.8, 72.9
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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- 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 30.8 and 32.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b75f00 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
#f48101
protanopia
#94940a · ΔE00 30.3
deuteranopia
#adad00 · ΔE00 30.8
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 32.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRè Dài Chéng Orange at ΔE00 0.812: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rè Dài Chéng OrangeΔE00 0.812 · #f08101
- University of Tennessee OrangeΔE00 0.962 · #f77f00
- À l’OrangeΔE00 1.151 · #f2850d
- Mikan OrangeΔE00 1.244 · #f08300
- HabañeroΔE00 1.356 · #f98513
- Glorious SunsetΔE00 1.372 · #f88517
- Atomic OrangeΔE00 1.401 · #f88605
- Tangerine SkinΔE00 1.516 · #f28500
- Consumed by FireΔE00 1.684 · #f5811a
- Bright MarigoldΔE00 1.747 · #eb7e00
- The New BlackΔE00 2.02 · #ff8400
- Retro NectarineΔE00 2.095 · #ef7d16
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.