HueComb

Apricot

#ffb16d

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

Hex

#ffb16d

RGB

255, 177, 109

OKLCh

82.1% 0.124 60.8°

CIELAB (D50)

78.9, 24.3, 46.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 32.8; on black, Lc -69.9. 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 22.8 and 23.8 and 28.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ad6519 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

#ffb16d

protanopia

#bcbc6e · ΔE00 22.8

deuteranopia

#cccc69 · ΔE00 23.8

tritanopia

#dcdc00 · ΔE00 28.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMango Salsa at ΔE00 1.209: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.