Peachy-Kini

#f1bf92

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

Hex

#f1bf92

RGB

241, 191, 146

OKLCh

83.9% 0.083 63.3°

CIELAB (D50)

81.1, 14.2, 29.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.2; on black, Lc -73.6. 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 16.8 and 17.2 and 25.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.67:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9b6d42 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

#f1bf92

protanopia

#c5c592 · ΔE00 16.8

deuteranopia

#cfcf90 · ΔE00 17.2

tritanopia

#dada00 · ΔE00 25.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Soufflé at ΔE00 0.563: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Apricot SouffléΔE00 0.563 · #f1c095
  • Dusty BootsΔE00 0.799 · #f3c090
  • Golden Oat ColouredΔE00 1.179 · #ecbe91
  • Melon MelodyΔE00 1.61 · #f9c291
  • Word of MouthΔE00 1.728 · #f2be96
  • Brandy ButterΔE00 1.789 · #f3bb8f
  • Apricot CreamΔE00 1.796 · #f1bd89
  • Cream BlushΔE00 1.799 · #f8c49a
  • Gold VesselΔE00 1.813 · #eaba8a
  • Baba GanoushΔE00 1.839 · #eebb88
  • Mango IceΔE00 1.856 · #f7bd8d
  • Persimmon FadeΔE00 1.937 · #f7bd8f

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