Paradise Bird
#ff8c55
An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff8c55
RGB
255, 140, 85
OKLCh
75.6% 0.156 45.1°
CIELAB (D50)
70.6, 41.4, 48.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 44.9; on black, Lc -57.2. 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 31.6 and 33.8 and 38.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c35617 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
#ff8c55
protanopia
#9f9f56 · ΔE00 31.6
deuteranopia
#b8b84d · ΔE00 33.8
tritanopia
#cfcf00 · ΔE00 38.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFire Orange at ΔE00 0.462: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fire OrangeΔE00 0.462 · #ff8e57
- Mango OrangeΔE00 0.999 · #ff8b58
- Tiger of MysoreΔE00 1.394 · #ff8855
- Boredom BusterΔE00 1.509 · #ff8e51
- BarbarianΔE00 1.563 · #f78c5a
- Tangerine DreamΔE00 1.869 · #ff8449
- BlazeΔE00 1.869 · #fa8c4f
- Valley of FireΔE00 1.933 · #ff8a4a
- Poached Rainbow TroutΔE00 1.936 · #ff8552
- Umezome PinkΔE00 2.179 · #fa9258
- Sè Lèi OrangeΔE00 2.261 · #fc824a
- NectarineΔE00 2.265 · #ff8656
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.