HueComb

Dainty Peach

#ffcdb9

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

#ffcdb9

RGB

255, 205, 185

OKLCh

88.7% 0.063 42.9°

CIELAB (D50)

86.5, 16.2, 17.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 20.6; on black, Lc -82.8. 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 20.4 and 21.2 and 33.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.69:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.69:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#996c5b 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

#ffcdb9

protanopia

#d3d3b9 · ΔE00 20.4

deuteranopia

#ddddb8 · ΔE00 21.2

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 33.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach and Quiet at ΔE00 0.734: 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.