HueComb

Bread and Butter

#ffd182

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

Hex

#ffd182

RGB

255, 209, 130

OKLCh

88.4% 0.110 80.1°

CIELAB (D50)

86.7, 9.8, 45.4

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 20.5; on black, Lc -82.9. 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 13.5 and 13.8 and 18.4 — 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

#996f18 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

#ffd182

protanopia

#d7d782 · ΔE00 13.5

deuteranopia

#e0e080 · ΔE00 13.8

tritanopia

#e9e900 · ΔE00 18.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEgg Yolk at ΔE00 1.148: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.