Torchlight

#ffc985

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

Hex

#ffc985

RGB

255, 201, 133

OKLCh

86.9% 0.105 72.1°

CIELAB (D50)

84.8, 13.9, 41.6

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 23.6; on black, Lc -79.6. 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 16.3 and 16.8 and 22.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.51:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.95:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.95:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e6d26 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

#ffc985

protanopia

#d0d085 · ΔE00 16.3

deuteranopia

#dbdb83 · ΔE00 16.8

tritanopia

#e6e600 · ΔE00 22.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLazy Sun at ΔE00 0.573: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Lazy SunΔE00 0.573 · #fec784
Apricot ButterΔE00 0.598 · #ffc782
Uldum BeigeΔE00 0.841 · #fcc680
Bastard AmberΔE00 0.959 · #ffcc88
Beige TopazΔE00 1.579 · #ffc87c
Goldenrod YellowΔE00 1.63 · #ffce8f
JackfruitΔE00 1.834 · #f7c680
Bronze BlushΔE00 1.906 · #fbc378
ZingΔE00 1.94 · #fbc17b
Cheddar ChunkΔE00 1.97 · #f9c982
Orange GlassΔE00 1.972 · #ffca7d
Apricot AppealΔE00 2.017 · #fec382

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