HueComb

Polenta

#efc47f

An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#efc47f

RGB

239, 196, 127

OKLCh

84.3% 0.100 78.6°

CIELAB (D50)

81.9, 9.5, 40.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 26 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.1; on black, Lc -74.9. 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 13.2 and 13.5 and 18.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.63:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.87:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.87:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#977029 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#efc47f

protanopia

#c9c97f · ΔE00 13.2

deuteranopia

#d2d27d · ΔE00 13.5

tritanopia

#dbdb00 · ΔE00 18.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGold Buff at ΔE00 0.808: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.