Pani Puri
#f4aa53
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f4aa53
RGB
244, 170, 83
OKLCh
79.3% 0.134 68.0°
CIELAB (D50)
75.7, 22.1, 55.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.5; on black, Lc -64.9. 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 21.3 and 21.9 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.96:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a96800 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
#f4aa53
protanopia
#b4b454 · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#c4c44e · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPolished Gold at ΔE00 1.344: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Polished GoldΔE00 1.344 · #eeaa55
- Egyptian GoldΔE00 1.511 · #efa84c
- DucklingΔE00 1.702 · #fcb057
- FlareΔE00 1.713 · #fcaf52
- O’Brien OrangeΔE00 1.885 · #f3a347
- Tōmorokoshi CornΔE00 1.908 · #faa945
- Alajuela ToadΔE00 2.003 · #ffae52
- Prison JumpsuitΔE00 2.013 · #fdaa48
- GoldfishΔE00 2.044 · #f2ad62
- Troll Slayer OrangeΔE00 2.102 · #f4a34c
- Golden KoiΔE00 2.193 · #eaa34b
- Blazing AutumnΔE00 2.243 · #f3ad63
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.