Fiesta
#edd8d2
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#edd8d2
RGB
237, 216, 210
OKLCh
89.8% 0.025 36.5°
CIELAB (D50)
88.0, 6.8, 5.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 32 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 uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 18.0; on black, Lc -85.6. 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 10.3 and 11.3 and 26.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#85736d 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
#edd8d2
protanopia
#dadad2 · ΔE00 10.3
deuteranopia
#deded1 · ΔE00 11.3
tritanopia
#e3e370 · ΔE00 26.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPorcelain Blush at ΔE00 0.675: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Porcelain BlushΔE00 0.675 · #f0dbd5
- Touch of TanΔE00 0.934 · #eed9d1
- Peach GlamourΔE00 0.952 · #ebd7d3
- Sweet TruffleΔE00 1.018 · #f0dcd7
- Delicate BlushΔE00 1.11 · #efd7d1
- AngelicΔE00 1.153 · #f2dcd7
- Coral CreamΔE00 1.201 · #ead6ce
- Slightly PeachΔE00 1.213 · #f1ddd8
- Rose VapourΔE00 1.221 · #f2dbd6
- Cosy CottageΔE00 1.223 · #f2ddd8
- Light Fairy PinkΔE00 1.403 · #f3ded7
- Cottingley FairiesΔE00 1.443 · #eddbd7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.