HueComb

Toes in the Sand

#f8dcbf

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

#f8dcbf

RGB

248, 220, 191

OKLCh

91.0% 0.049 68.1°

CIELAB (D50)

89.6, 6.8, 18.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 35 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 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.5; on black, Lc -88.2. 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 12.5 and 12.8 and 25.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7258 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

#f8dcbf

protanopia

#dfdfbf · ΔE00 12.5

deuteranopia

#e5e5be · ΔE00 12.8

tritanopia

#eaea00 · ΔE00 25.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMystic Opal at ΔE00 0.804: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Mystic OpalΔE00 0.804 · #fbddbe
  • Unbleached CalicoΔE00 0.926 · #f5d8bb
  • Porcelain PeachΔE00 0.947 · #f5d8ba
  • Subtle PeachΔE00 1.059 · #fae0c4
  • Creamy BeigeΔE00 1.169 · #fde1c5
  • Apricot WhisperΔE00 1.23 · #fae0c2
  • TurkscapΔE00 1.32 · #f3d8be
  • Pumpkin EssenceΔE00 1.328 · #f7dac0
  • Morning BlossomΔE00 1.341 · #f4dabb
  • Buenos AiresΔE00 1.394 · #f4dcc1
  • Butter WhiteΔE00 1.415 · #fddebd
  • Golden PastelΔE00 1.448 · #f4d9b9

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