Atomic Tangerine
#ff9966
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff9966
RGB
255, 153, 102
OKLCh
77.9% 0.139 46.6°
CIELAB (D50)
73.5, 35.9, 43.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 40.8; on black, Lc -61.5. 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 29.0 and 31.0 and 36.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.10:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bb5c26 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
#ff9966
protanopia
#a9a967 · ΔE00 29.0
deuteranopia
#bfbf60 · ΔE00 31.0
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 36.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMock Orange at ΔE00 0.505: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mock OrangeΔE00 0.505 · #ff9863
- Fresh CantaloupeΔE00 0.828 · #ff9c68
- Indian PaintbrushΔE00 1.335 · #fa9761
- Brown SandΔE00 1.826 · #f7945f
- Rainbow TroutΔE00 1.874 · #ff975c
- PapayaΔE00 2.186 · #fe985c
- Burning CoalsΔE00 2.387 · #f79d72
- Umezome PinkΔE00 2.39 · #fa9258
- Day at the ZooΔE00 2.447 · #ffa373
- Autumn ArrivalΔE00 2.53 · #f9986f
- Orange SliceΔE00 2.583 · #f4915c
- Fire OrangeΔE00 2.61 · #ff8e57
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.