HueComb

Royal Milk Tea

#f7cfb4

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

#f7cfb4

RGB

247, 207, 180

OKLCh

88.2% 0.058 55.9°

CIELAB (D50)

86.1, 11.7, 19.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.2; on black, Lc -82.1. 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 16.9 and 17.2 and 28.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.54:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.54:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#936f57 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

#f7cfb4

protanopia

#d4d4b4 · ΔE00 16.9

deuteranopia

#dcdcb3 · ΔE00 17.2

tritanopia

#e4e400 · ΔE00 28.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isButterfly Wing at ΔE00 0.304: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Butterfly WingΔE00 0.304 · #f8cfb4
  • Dough YellowΔE00 0.593 · #f6d0b6
  • Autumn WindΔE00 0.814 · #fbd1b6
  • Apricot FreezeΔE00 1.299 · #f3cfb7
  • Lips of ApricotΔE00 1.337 · #fbceb1
  • Pastel PeachΔE00 1.527 · #f1caad
  • Only YesterdayΔE00 1.539 · #f4d1b9
  • Sensual PeachΔE00 1.629 · #ffd2b6
  • Prairie DuneΔE00 1.67 · #fbd5bd
  • Canter PeachΔE00 1.68 · #f6d3bb
  • Vintage PeachΔE00 1.745 · #fdcfb0
  • Whipped PeachΔE00 1.791 · #faccad

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