Air-Kiss
#f6dcd2
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
#f6dcd2
RGB
246, 220, 210
OKLCh
91.3% 0.032 42.3°
CIELAB (D50)
89.7, 8.1, 8.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.1; on black, Lc -88.6. 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 12.5 and 13.7 and 30.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897269 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
#f6dcd2
protanopia
#dfdfd2 · ΔE00 12.5
deuteranopia
#e4e4d1 · ΔE00 13.7
tritanopia
#e9e92b · ΔE00 30.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTouch of Blush at ΔE00 0.824: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Touch of BlushΔE00 0.824 · #f6ded5
- BlanchedΔE00 0.874 · #f6dcd0
- Pink ZestΔE00 1.009 · #f2d8cd
- Pink SangriaΔE00 1.037 · #f6dbd3
- PinkwashΔE00 1.112 · #f2dbd2
- Veiled PinkΔE00 1.117 · #f9dfd7
- Cameo RoseΔE00 1.152 · #f7dfd7
- Possibly PinkΔE00 1.167 · #f3dace
- Tan WhirlΔE00 1.189 · #f1d7ce
- Light Shell TintΔE00 1.191 · #fce0d6
- Botticelli AngelΔE00 1.191 · #fbdfd6
- Summer BlushΔE00 1.193 · #f6dfd6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.