Lion’s Roar
#f5dab3
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
#f5dab3
RGB
245, 218, 179
OKLCh
90.1% 0.059 76.9°
CIELAB (D50)
88.6, 5.4, 22.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.1; on black, Lc -86.5. 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 10.6 and 10.7 and 22.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b734f 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
#f5dab3
protanopia
#ddddb3 · ΔE00 10.6
deuteranopia
#e2e2b2 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 22.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaptivating Cream at ΔE00 0.379: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Captivating CreamΔE00 0.379 · #f4d9b1
- GrappaΔE00 0.41 · #f5d9b1
- Cream CustardΔE00 0.677 · #f2d7b0
- HinokiΔE00 0.747 · #f8ddb7
- Simple PleasuresΔE00 0.846 · #f1d8b2
- Clam ChowderΔE00 0.905 · #f4d9af
- Walnut CreamΔE00 0.926 · #f5d8b2
- Tahitian SandΔE00 0.928 · #f5dcb4
- PastryΔE00 0.938 · #f8deb8
- Corn HuskΔE00 0.948 · #f2d6ae
- Time OutΔE00 1.094 · #fadeb8
- Apricot GelatoΔE00 1.11 · #f5d7af
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.