Acropolis
#f8e2ca
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
#f8e2ca
RGB
248, 226, 202
OKLCh
92.4% 0.040 69.7°
CIELAB (D50)
91.2, 5.0, 14.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 43 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 12.7; on black, Lc -91.3. 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 10.5 and 10.9 and 23.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#87745e 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
#f8e2ca
protanopia
#e5e5ca · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#e9e9c9 · ΔE00 10.9
tritanopia
#eded42 · ΔE00 23.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAlmeja at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AlmejaΔE00 0.629 · #f5e0c9
- Sand Dollar WhiteΔE00 0.712 · #fae3c9
- Full CreamΔE00 0.894 · #fae4ce
- Flower of OahuΔE00 1.012 · #f5dfc5
- Bay ScallopΔE00 1.043 · #fbe6cd
- SazeracΔE00 1.101 · #f5dec4
- Fair IvoryΔE00 1.116 · #fce7cf
- Orange SparkleΔE00 1.117 · #fae1c7
- Serengeti SandΔE00 1.136 · #fce7d0
- Playful PeachΔE00 1.143 · #fce3ca
- Oat FlourΔE00 1.201 · #f7e4cd
- Noodle ArmsΔE00 1.265 · #f5ddc4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.