Charming Peach
#f5ad75
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f5ad75
RGB
245, 173, 117
OKLCh
80.4% 0.111 58.2°
CIELAB (D50)
76.9, 22.8, 39.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 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 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.7; on black, Lc -66.8. 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 21.9 and 23.0 and 28.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a9672e 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
#f5ad75
protanopia
#b7b776 · ΔE00 21.9
deuteranopia
#c6c672 · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#d5d500 · ΔE00 28.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTacao at ΔE00 0.576: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TacaoΔE00 0.576 · #f6ae78
- Florida SunriseΔE00 1.112 · #f7aa6f
- Orange MarmaladeΔE00 1.179 · #faac72
- Taste of SummerΔE00 1.402 · #f2ae73
- Catalina TileΔE00 1.404 · #efac73
- Hazelnut MilkΔE00 1.555 · #eeaa77
- Apricot JamΔE00 1.669 · #eea771
- Exciting OrangeΔE00 1.703 · #f0b07a
- Market MelonΔE00 1.768 · #fbb377
- Cantaloupe SliceΔE00 1.846 · #feb079
- Isn’t It Just PeachyΔE00 1.848 · #ffb278
- Obtrusive OrangeΔE00 1.869 · #ffb077
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.