HueComb

Deviled Eggs

#fecd82

An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fecd82

RGB

254, 205, 130

OKLCh

87.5% 0.108 77.2°

CIELAB (D50)

85.6, 11.3, 44.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 97% 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 22.2; on black, Lc -81.0. 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 14.5 and 14.9 and 19.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9b6e1e 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

#fecd82

protanopia

#d3d382 · ΔE00 14.5

deuteranopia

#dddd80 · ΔE00 14.9

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 19.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEquatorial at ΔE00 0.312: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • EquatorialΔE00 0.312 · #ffce84
  • Egg YolkΔE00 0.444 · #ffce81
  • Orange GlassΔE00 1.098 · #ffca7d
  • Cheddar ChunkΔE00 1.197 · #f9c982
  • SunporchΔE00 1.435 · #ffd18c
  • Puff Pastry YellowΔE00 1.451 · #fccf8b
  • Bread and ButterΔE00 1.51 · #ffd182
  • Honey BirdΔE00 1.629 · #ffd28d
  • Juicy MangoΔE00 1.656 · #ffd08d
  • Elf CreamΔE00 1.67 · #f7c985
  • Bastard AmberΔE00 1.729 · #ffcc88
  • AfternoonΔE00 1.731 · #fbcb78

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