HueComb

Apricot Sherbet

#fbcd9f

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

#fbcd9f

RGB

251, 205, 159

OKLCh

87.7% 0.079 66.5°

CIELAB (D50)

85.7, 12.3, 29.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 90% 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 22.0; on black, Lc -81.3. 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 15.5 and 15.8 and 24.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.46:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.34:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.34:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#986f43 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

#fbcd9f

protanopia

#d3d39f · ΔE00 15.5

deuteranopia

#dcdc9d · ΔE00 15.8

tritanopia

#e5e500 · ΔE00 24.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Beach at ΔE00 0.461: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Peach BeachΔE00 0.461 · #fdcfa1
  • Atoll SandΔE00 0.927 · #ffcf9e
  • Chai LatteΔE00 0.942 · #f9cba0
  • Orange CanyonΔE00 0.977 · #fdd1a4
  • Apricot Ice CreamΔE00 0.99 · #f8cc9c
  • Melon SprinkleΔE00 0.999 · #ffcd9d
  • Orange BlastΔE00 1.177 · #f5c99b
  • AffinityΔE00 1.178 · #fed2a5
  • SundownΔE00 1.274 · #f5c99e
  • Lion CubΔE00 1.299 · #f9cda4
  • Maple BeigeΔE00 1.343 · #fad0a1
  • Orpiment YellowΔE00 1.385 · #f9c89b

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