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#fedbb7

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

#fedbb7

RGB

254, 219, 183

OKLCh

91.2% 0.061 67.7°

CIELAB (D50)

89.7, 8.7, 22.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 26 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 96% 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 15.3; on black, Lc -88.4. 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 13.8 and 13.9 and 24.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#907150 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

#fedbb7

protanopia

#dfdfb7 · ΔE00 13.8

deuteranopia

#e6e6b6 · ΔE00 13.9

tritanopia

#eded00 · ΔE00 24.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeachy Sand at ΔE00 0.373: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Peachy SandΔE00 0.373 · #ffdcb7
  • Sandy TanΔE00 0.51 · #fdd9b5
  • Three Ring CircusΔE00 0.537 · #fddbb6
  • Alphabet SoupΔE00 0.618 · #fedcba
  • Christmas RoseΔE00 0.723 · #ffddbb
  • Young ApricotΔE00 0.809 · #fcd8b5
  • PêcheΔE00 0.837 · #fddcb7
  • Sandy BayΔE00 0.892 · #fad7b3
  • AlmondineΔE00 1.081 · #fedebc
  • Alishan DawnΔE00 1.145 · #fedab9
  • Venus DeathtrapΔE00 1.16 · #fed8b1
  • Acini di PepeΔE00 1.312 · #ffd8b1

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