HueComb

Nectarine

#ff8656

An orange that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ff8656

RGB

255, 134, 86

OKLCh

74.6% 0.160 41.7°

CIELAB (D50)

69.4, 44.3, 47.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.6; on black, Lc -55.5. 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 32.8 and 35.4 and 40.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.39:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c6531f 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

#ff8656

protanopia

#9a9a57 · ΔE00 32.8

deuteranopia

#b5b54e · ΔE00 35.4

tritanopia

#cece00 · ΔE00 40.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoached Rainbow Trout at ΔE00 0.72: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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