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#f6d8be

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

#f6d8be

RGB

246, 216, 190

OKLCh

90.0% 0.048 63.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.4, 7.9, 16.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

29 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 17.5; on black, Lc -86.1. 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 13.6 and 14.0 and 26.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c725a 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

#f6d8be

protanopia

#dcdcbe · ΔE00 13.6

deuteranopia

#e1e1bd · ΔE00 14.0

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 26.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPumpkin Essence at ΔE00 0.543: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Pumpkin EssenceΔE00 0.543 · #f7dac0
Alluring GestureΔE00 0.753 · #f8dbc2
Beyond the PaleΔE00 1.049 · #f7d6ba
TurkscapΔE00 1.117 · #f3d8be
Champagne PeachΔE00 1.155 · #faddc4
Miami StuccoΔE00 1.19 · #f5d5b8
SweetnessΔE00 1.23 · #f8dbc4
Incan TreasureΔE00 1.236 · #f9ddc4
Pulled TaffyΔE00 1.255 · #f1d6bc
Fresh Baked BreadΔE00 1.257 · #f8d7be
Unbleached CalicoΔE00 1.281 · #f5d8bb
Serene PeachΔE00 1.603 · #f5d3b7

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