HueComb

Macaroni and Cheese

#ffb97b

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

Hex

#ffb97b

RGB

255, 185, 123

OKLCh

83.8% 0.113 61.9°

CIELAB (D50)

80.9, 21.2, 41.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 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 29.7; on black, Lc -73.1. 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 21.0 and 21.9 and 27.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.68:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a86828 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

#ffb97b

protanopia

#c3c37c · ΔE00 21.0

deuteranopia

#d1d178 · ΔE00 21.9

tritanopia

#dfdf00 · ΔE00 27.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDurazno Maduro at ΔE00 0.693: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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