HueComb

Nouveau-Riche

#ffbb77

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

Hex

#ffbb77

RGB

255, 187, 119

OKLCh

84.1% 0.116 65.1°

CIELAB (D50)

81.3, 19.9, 44.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 29.1; on black, Lc -73.8. 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 20.2 and 21.0 and 25.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a7691f 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

#ffbb77

protanopia

#c4c478 · ΔE00 20.2

deuteranopia

#d2d274 · ΔE00 21.0

tritanopia

#e0e000 · ΔE00 25.6

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 1.036: 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.