HueComb

Buttery

#ffc283

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

Hex

#ffc283

RGB

255, 194, 131

OKLCh

85.6% 0.106 66.5°

CIELAB (D50)

83.1, 17.2, 40.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 26.2; on black, Lc -76.8. 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 18.5 and 19.2 and 24.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.58:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a26b2a 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

#ffc283

protanopia

#caca83 · ΔE00 18.5

deuteranopia

#d6d680 · ΔE00 19.2

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 24.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Appeal at ΔE00 0.818: 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.