HueComb

Carrot

#fd6f3b

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#fd6f3b

RGB

253, 111, 59

OKLCh

70.7% 0.186 39.6°

CIELAB (D50)

64.6, 53.3, 55.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.0; on black, Lc -48.8. 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 36.5 and 39.2 and 42.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d24701 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#fd6f3b

protanopia

#89893d · ΔE00 36.5

deuteranopia

#aaaa2c · ΔE00 39.2

tritanopia

#c6c600 · ΔE00 42.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrange Burst at ΔE00 0.355: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.