Granola
#f5ce9f
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
#f5ce9f
RGB
245, 206, 159
OKLCh
87.4% 0.075 71.8°
CIELAB (D50)
85.3, 9.5, 28.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 27 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 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.5; on black, Lc -80.7. 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 13.4 and 13.6 and 22.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.48:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.21:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.21:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#947044 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
#f5ce9f
protanopia
#d3d39f · ΔE00 13.4
deuteranopia
#dada9e · ΔE00 13.6
tritanopia
#e2e200 · ΔE00 22.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBagel at ΔE00 0.798: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BagelΔE00 0.798 · #f6cd9b
- Ginger PeachΔE00 0.812 · #f9d09f
- CapriciousΔE00 0.909 · #f1cd9f
- TequilaΔE00 1.021 · #f4d0a4
- Maple BeigeΔE00 1.062 · #fad0a1
- Warm CocoonΔE00 1.296 · #f9d09c
- Hazy DayΔE00 1.323 · #f2cc99
- Apricot Ice CreamΔE00 1.37 · #f8cc9c
- Honey BlushΔE00 1.44 · #f5cf9b
- Mellow MomentΔE00 1.501 · #f2c996
- Quiet StarΔE00 1.558 · #eecc9f
- TuscanΔE00 1.587 · #fbd5a6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.