Tiger of Mysore
#ff8855
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff8855
RGB
255, 136, 85
OKLCh
74.9% 0.159 43.0°
CIELAB (D50)
69.8, 43.3, 48.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 46.0; on black, Lc -56.0. 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 32.4 and 34.8 and 39.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c5541c 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
#ff8855
protanopia
#9c9c56 · ΔE00 32.4
deuteranopia
#b6b64d · ΔE00 34.8
tritanopia
#cece00 · ΔE00 39.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoached Rainbow Trout at ΔE00 0.664: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Poached Rainbow TroutΔE00 0.664 · #ff8552
- Mango OrangeΔE00 0.675 · #ff8b58
- NectarineΔE00 0.881 · #ff8656
- Paradise BirdΔE00 1.394 · #ff8c55
- BarbarianΔE00 1.747 · #f78c5a
- Fire OrangeΔE00 1.771 · #ff8e57
- Sè Lèi OrangeΔE00 1.785 · #fc824a
- Tangerine DreamΔE00 1.882 · #ff8449
- Nārangī OrangeΔE00 1.942 · #ff8050
- After BurnΔE00 1.965 · #fd8b60
- Mythical OrangeΔE00 2.001 · #ff7f49
- Autumn SunsetΔE00 2.132 · #f38554
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.