HueComb

Glazed Sugar

#ffdccc

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

#ffdccc

RGB

255, 220, 204

OKLCh

92.0% 0.045 46.0°

CIELAB (D50)

90.4, 10.7, 12.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 14.0; on black, Lc -89.8. 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 16.0 and 17.2 and 31.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f7062 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

#ffdccc

protanopia

#e0e0cc · ΔE00 16.0

deuteranopia

#e7e7cb · ΔE00 17.2

tritanopia

#eeee00 · ΔE00 31.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeaceful Peach at ΔE00 0.366: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Peaceful PeachΔE00 0.366 · #ffddcd
  • Plastic MarbleΔE00 0.619 · #ffddcc
  • ToronjaΔE00 0.94 · #ffdecd
  • Scallop ShellΔE00 0.961 · #fbd8c9
  • CamisoleΔE00 1.064 · #fcd9c7
  • Shironeri SilkΔE00 1.209 · #feddcb
  • Rosy CloudΔE00 1.224 · #fedecd
  • Unbleached SilkΔE00 1.362 · #ffddca
  • Deep ChampagneΔE00 1.37 · #fad6c5
  • QuiltΔE00 1.399 · #fcd9c6
  • Heavenly SongΔE00 1.553 · #fbd9c6
  • Yours TrulyΔE00 1.706 · #fbd9cd

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