HueComb

Tuscan

#fbd5a6

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

#fbd5a6

RGB

251, 213, 166

OKLCh

89.4% 0.074 72.6°

CIELAB (D50)

87.7, 9.0, 28.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 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 88% 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 18.7; on black, Lc -84.8. 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 13.0 and 13.2 and 22.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#937144 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

#fbd5a6

protanopia

#dadaa6 · ΔE00 13.0

deuteranopia

#e1e1a5 · ΔE00 13.2

tritanopia

#e9e900 · ΔE00 22.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Cider at ΔE00 0.898: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Peach CiderΔE00 0.898 · #ffd9aa
  • Fresh ApricotΔE00 0.924 · #ffd7a5
  • Sherbet PopΔE00 0.925 · #fed5a3
  • ProseccoΔE00 0.941 · #fad6a5
  • Peachy Summer SkiesΔE00 1.016 · #ffd9a8
  • Nevada MorningΔE00 1.31 · #ffd5a7
  • Ginger PeachΔE00 1.319 · #f9d09f
  • Speak to MeΔE00 1.338 · #ffd9a6
  • Light and FluffyΔE00 1.365 · #ffd5a1
  • TequilaΔE00 1.441 · #f4d0a4
  • Maple BeigeΔE00 1.501 · #fad0a1
  • September SunΔE00 1.586 · #fdd7a2

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