Sunburst
#f5b57b
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f5b57b
RGB
245, 181, 123
OKLCh
82.0% 0.105 62.7°
CIELAB (D50)
78.8, 19.1, 39.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.8; on black, Lc -69.9. 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 19.7 and 20.5 and 26.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a46a2f 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
#f5b57b
protanopia
#bebe7c · ΔE00 19.7
deuteranopia
#cbcb78 · ΔE00 20.5
tritanopia
#d8d800 · ΔE00 26.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrange Salmonberry at ΔE00 1.486: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Orange SalmonberryΔE00 1.486 · #f0b073
- Mellow ApricotΔE00 1.572 · #f8b878
- Exciting OrangeΔE00 1.576 · #f0b07a
- Surprise AmberΔE00 1.64 · #efb57a
- Camel Hair CoatΔE00 1.687 · #f5b784
- Market MelonΔE00 1.694 · #fbb377
- ArizonaΔE00 1.717 · #eeb377
- Taste of SummerΔE00 1.763 · #f2ae73
- Go Go MangoΔE00 1.786 · #feb87e
- Macaroni and CheeseΔE00 1.841 · #ffb97b
- Middle Yellow RedΔE00 1.898 · #ecb176
- Apricot FlowerΔE00 1.913 · #ffbb80
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.