HueComb

Cameo

#f2debc

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f2debc

RGB

242, 222, 188

OKLCh

90.8% 0.050 81.0°

CIELAB (D50)

89.5, 3.2, 19.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 53 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.6; on black, Lc -88.1. 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 8.7 and 8.8 and 21.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.95:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.95:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867455 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

#f2debc

protanopia

#e0e0bc · ΔE00 8.7

deuteranopia

#e4e4bb · ΔE00 8.8

tritanopia

#e8e82f · ΔE00 21.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShimmering Champagne at ΔE00 0.403: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Shimmering ChampagneΔE00 0.403 · #f3debc
  • Cracked WheatΔE00 0.481 · #f4dfbd
  • Vanilla CustardΔE00 0.57 · #f3e0be
  • Tea CookieΔE00 0.759 · #f4e1c0
  • Alabaster GleamΔE00 0.766 · #f0debd
  • Rotunda GoldΔE00 0.782 · #f5e0bf
  • Ginger Ale FizzΔE00 0.79 · #f5dfbc
  • Nothing LessΔE00 0.915 · #f2deb9
  • Stable HayΔE00 0.956 · #f6e0be
  • Spinning SilkΔE00 0.975 · #f3ddbc
  • Dusty IvoryΔE00 0.979 · #f1ddbe
  • Butter UpΔE00 0.993 · #f4e0bb

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