HueComb

Caramel Finish

#ffd59a

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

Hex

#ffd59a

RGB

255, 213, 154

OKLCh

89.5% 0.089 75.7°

CIELAB (D50)

87.9, 9.5, 35.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 18.4; on black, Lc -85.1. 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 13.2 and 13.5 and 20.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#967037 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

#ffd59a

protanopia

#dada9a · ΔE00 13.2

deuteranopia

#e2e298 · ΔE00 13.5

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 20.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAugust Morning at ΔE00 0.641: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • August MorningΔE00 0.641 · #ffd79d
  • Blushing PeachΔE00 0.82 · #ffd79f
  • Fuzzy NavelΔE00 0.911 · #ffd69f
  • Paw PawΔE00 0.936 · #fbd49c
  • FrangipaniΔE00 0.989 · #ffd7a0
  • Mango NectarΔE00 1.101 · #ffd49d
  • EndearmentΔE00 1.165 · #ffd8a1
  • Whipped ApricotΔE00 1.221 · #ffd299
  • September SunΔE00 1.498 · #fdd7a2
  • Light and FluffyΔE00 1.7 · #ffd5a1
  • Yellow LotusΔE00 1.737 · #f6d099
  • Warm CocoonΔE00 1.941 · #f9d09c

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