Spicy Sweetcorn
#f6ac00
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f6ac00
RGB
246, 172, 0
OKLCh
79.5% 0.166 77.7°
CIELAB (D50)
76.1, 20.3, 78.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 26 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 36.9; on black, Lc -65.6. 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 19.2 and 19.3 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9e6d00 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
#f6ac00
protanopia
#b6b607 · ΔE00 19.2
deuteranopia
#c6c600 · ΔE00 19.3
tritanopia
#d5d500 · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLemon Chrome at ΔE00 0.747: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Lemon ChromeΔE00 0.747 · #faae00
- Sultan GoldΔE00 0.807 · #f6ac17
- Spectra YellowΔE00 0.877 · #f6aa09
- SquashΔE00 0.902 · #f2ab15
- Queen AnneΔE00 1.071 · #fab001
- Tangerine TwistΔE00 1.099 · #f8ad1b
- Yellow OrangeΔE00 1.207 · #fcb001
- Limeño LimónΔE00 1.372 · #f8b109
- Gusto GoldΔE00 1.431 · #f8ac1d
- Groovy GiraffeΔE00 1.536 · #eeaa11
- FrenzyΔE00 1.564 · #feb101
- Welcoming WaspΔE00 1.596 · #eeaa00
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.