Baltic Amber
#fbb782
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fbb782
RGB
251, 183, 130
OKLCh
83.1% 0.105 58.6°
CIELAB (D50)
80.0, 21.0, 37.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 92% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.9; on black, Lc -71.8. 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 20.9 and 21.9 and 28.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a66834 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
#fbb782
protanopia
#c0c083 · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#cece7f · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#dcdc00 · ΔE00 28.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReddish Banana at ΔE00 1.131: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Reddish BananaΔE00 1.131 · #ffbb88
- Go Go MangoΔE00 1.172 · #feb87e
- Camel Hair CoatΔE00 1.311 · #f5b784
- Goose BillΔE00 1.385 · #ffba80
- Orange MousseΔE00 1.464 · #ffbd8a
- Smoked HamΔE00 1.673 · #f2b381
- Savannah SunΔE00 1.71 · #ffb989
- Fresh PeachesΔE00 1.734 · #f6b98a
- Apricot FlowerΔE00 1.753 · #ffbb80
- Market MelonΔE00 1.766 · #fbb377
- Autumn MistΔE00 1.927 · #f7b486
- Isn’t It Just PeachyΔE00 1.959 · #ffb278
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.