Shrimp Toast
#f7c5a0
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
#f7c5a0
RGB
247, 197, 160
OKLCh
85.9% 0.075 58.0°
CIELAB (D50)
83.4, 14.8, 25.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.6; on black, Lc -77.4. 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 17.8 and 18.1 and 27.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6d4b 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
#f7c5a0
protanopia
#cbcba0 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#d5d59e · ΔE00 18.1
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 27.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlmond Cream at ΔE00 0.931: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Almond CreamΔE00 0.931 · #f4c29f
- Fresco CreamΔE00 1.284 · #fcc9a6
- Cream BlushΔE00 1.392 · #f8c49a
- Avid ApricotΔE00 1.434 · #f4c69f
- Carving PartyΔE00 1.457 · #f0c39f
- PollyΔE00 1.498 · #ffcaa4
- Apricot FrothΔE00 1.588 · #ffc7a0
- Corn KernelΔE00 1.609 · #ffcba4
- Coral ConfectionΔE00 1.627 · #fccca7
- Peach CrayonΔE00 1.684 · #ffcba7
- RomanticΔE00 1.724 · #ffc69e
- Light Saffron OrangeΔE00 1.755 · #ffcca5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.