Burning Flame
#ffb162
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffb162
RGB
255, 177, 98
OKLCh
82.0% 0.132 64.5°
CIELAB (D50)
78.8, 23.8, 51.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 33.0; on black, Lc -69.7. 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 22.4 and 23.2 and 26.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.79:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ad6600 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
#ffb162
protanopia
#bcbc63 · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#cccc5d · ΔE00 23.2
tritanopia
#dcdc00 · ΔE00 26.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVintage Orange at ΔE00 0.39: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vintage OrangeΔE00 0.39 · #ffb05f
- Mango SalsaΔE00 1.137 · #ffb066
- Dreamy SunsetΔE00 1.469 · #ffad61
- Ripe CantaloupeΔE00 1.476 · #fbb363
- Mango CreamsiclesΔE00 1.706 · #ffb769
- RajahΔE00 1.739 · #fbab60
- Stirring OrangeΔE00 1.79 · #f6b064
- Soul SideΔE00 1.915 · #ffaa55
- DucklingΔE00 2.133 · #fcb057
- November GoldΔE00 2.178 · #f6b265
- Alajuela ToadΔE00 2.181 · #ffae52
- Blazing AutumnΔE00 2.193 · #f3ad63
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.