Shrimp Cocktail
#f4a461
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f4a461
RGB
244, 164, 97
OKLCh
78.4% 0.126 59.4°
CIELAB (D50)
74.5, 25.8, 46.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.3; on black, Lc -63.0. 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 23.6 and 24.6 and 28.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.03:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.33:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.33:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af6419 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
#f4a461
protanopia
#afaf62 · ΔE00 23.6
deuteranopia
#c0c05c · ΔE00 24.6
tritanopia
#d1d100 · ΔE00 28.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSandy Brown at ΔE00 0.218: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sandy BrownΔE00 0.218 · #f4a460
- Candied YamsΔE00 1.089 · #f9a765
- Cosy NookΔE00 1.443 · #fba765
- Adventure OrangeΔE00 1.66 · #eda367
- Downy FeatherΔE00 1.978 · #feaa66
- Bergamot OrangeΔE00 2.02 · #f59d59
- Brushed OrangeΔE00 2.093 · #f8a060
- Transparent OrangeΔE00 2.126 · #ffaa66
- DoughnutΔE00 2.137 · #eda057
- Florida SunriseΔE00 2.179 · #f7aa6f
- Off-The-Leash OrangeΔE00 2.377 · #ffa259
- Ginger MilkΔE00 2.416 · #f7a454
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.