HueComb

Discreet Orange

#ffad98

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

Hex

#ffad98

RGB

255, 173, 152

OKLCh

82.2% 0.102 35.0°

CIELAB (D50)

78.5, 29.1, 23.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 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 33.2; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 25.7 and 27.6 and 39.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.80:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.68:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.68:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ad6350 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

#ffad98

protanopia

#b9b999 · ΔE00 25.7

deuteranopia

#caca95 · ΔE00 27.6

tritanopia

#dbdb00 · ΔE00 39.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Persimmon at ΔE00 0.332: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink PersimmonΔE00 0.332 · #ffad97
  • No Way RoséΔE00 0.847 · #fbaa95
  • Frozen SalmonΔE00 0.997 · #fea993
  • Peach NectarΔE00 1.04 · #ffae96
  • Buttery SalmonΔE00 1.251 · #ffb19a
  • Pink Rose BudΔE00 1.412 · #feab9a
  • Prairie SunsetΔE00 1.474 · #ffb199
  • Duchess RoseΔE00 1.495 · #f7aa97
  • Honey Baked HamΔE00 1.546 · #ffaa99
  • Pretty PrimroseΔE00 1.804 · #f5a994
  • Au ContraireΔE00 2.126 · #f6a694
  • Coral SerenadeΔE00 2.175 · #f9a48e

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