Honeyed Glow
#efc488
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#efc488
RGB
239, 196, 136
OKLCh
84.5% 0.091 75.3°
CIELAB (D50)
82.0, 10.2, 36.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.9; on black, Lc -75.1. 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 13.6 and 13.9 and 20.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.63:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#977034 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
#efc488
protanopia
#c9c988 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#d2d286 · ΔE00 13.9
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 20.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPollen Grains at ΔE00 0.324: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pollen GrainsΔE00 0.324 · #f0c588
- Sunset in ItalyΔE00 0.832 · #f0c484
- Golden HominyΔE00 0.857 · #edc283
- Skullcrusher BrassΔE00 0.962 · #f1c78e
- EldarΔE00 0.981 · #ecc083
- Piedra de SolΔE00 1.012 · #eac185
- Ginger Root PeelΔE00 1.09 · #f0c48c
- Arts & Crafts GoldΔE00 1.408 · #f5c68b
- Beacon YellowΔE00 1.481 · #f2c98a
- Bellini FizzΔE00 1.581 · #f5c78e
- HarvesterΔE00 1.602 · #edc38e
- Sweet!ΔE00 1.649 · #f1ca90
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.