Golden Opportunity
#f7c070
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f7c070
RGB
247, 192, 112
OKLCh
84.1% 0.116 75.4°
CIELAB (D50)
81.5, 13.8, 47.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.6; on black, Lc -74.2. 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 16.2 and 16.6 and 20.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f6d0f 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
#f7c070
protanopia
#c7c771 · ΔE00 16.2
deuteranopia
#d2d26d · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#dddd00 · ΔE00 20.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJust Peachy at ΔE00 0.69: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Just PeachyΔE00 0.69 · #f8c275
- BrassoΔE00 1.004 · #f3bc6b
- Bronze BlushΔE00 1.373 · #fbc378
- Liquid GoldΔE00 1.441 · #fdc675
- SunriseΔE00 1.456 · #f4bf77
- California PeachΔE00 1.61 · #fcbe6a
- Roasted SesameΔE00 1.62 · #fec36b
- Mirabelle YellowΔE00 1.679 · #f3be67
- Solar StormΔE00 1.705 · #ffc16c
- Buff YellowΔE00 1.778 · #f0b967
- Simply PeachyΔE00 1.87 · #ffc06c
- Pineapple CakeΔE00 1.9 · #edbb6e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.