HueComb

Peach and Quiet

#ffccb6

An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ffccb6

RGB

255, 204, 182

OKLCh

88.4% 0.065 44.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.2, 16.4, 18.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 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 21.1; on black, Lc -82.3. 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 20.4 and 21.0 and 32.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9a6c58 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

#ffccb6

protanopia

#d3d3b6 · ΔE00 20.4

deuteranopia

#ddddb4 · ΔE00 21.0

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 32.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDainty Peach at ΔE00 0.734: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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