HueComb

Goose Bill

#ffba80

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

Hex

#ffba80

RGB

255, 186, 128

OKLCh

84.0% 0.109 60.6°

CIELAB (D50)

81.2, 21.0, 39.6

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 29.2; on black, Lc -73.6. 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 20.9 and 21.8 and 27.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.67:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a7682d 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

#ffba80

protanopia

#c3c381 · ΔE00 20.9

deuteranopia

#d1d17d · ΔE00 21.8

tritanopia

#e0e000 · ΔE00 27.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Flower at ΔE00 0.438: 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.