Persian Melon
#ffdcbf
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
#ffdcbf
RGB
255, 220, 191
OKLCh
91.6% 0.055 61.7°
CIELAB (D50)
90.2, 9.4, 19.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 21 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 14.5; on black, Lc -89.3. 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 14.9 and 15.2 and 26.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.24:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.24:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907156 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ffdcbf
protanopia
#e0e0bf · ΔE00 14.9
deuteranopia
#e7e7be · ΔE00 15.2
tritanopia
#eeee00 · ΔE00 26.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKarry at ΔE00 0.644: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- KarryΔE00 0.644 · #fedcc1
- Orange IceΔE00 0.754 · #ffdec1
- Delicate DawnΔE00 0.863 · #fed9bc
- Thousand Needles SandΔE00 1.027 · #ffd9bb
- Sand MuffinΔE00 1.139 · #ffdfc2
- Gentle CaressΔE00 1.207 · #fcd7ba
- Peach PuffΔE00 1.3 · #ffdab9
- Whispering PeachΔE00 1.337 · #fedcc3
- Alishan DawnΔE00 1.338 · #fedab9
- Durazno PalidoΔE00 1.451 · #ffd8bb
- Beyond the PaleΔE00 1.538 · #f7d6ba
- Tender PeachΔE00 1.563 · #f8d5b8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.