HueComb

Coral Kiss

#ffddc7

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

#ffddc7

RGB

255, 221, 199

OKLCh

92.0% 0.048 54.9°

CIELAB (D50)

90.6, 9.7, 15.4

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 13.8; on black, Lc -90.0. 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 15.4 and 16.1 and 28.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.42:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.42:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f715d 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

#ffddc7

protanopia

#e1e1c7 · ΔE00 15.4

deuteranopia

#e8e8c6 · ΔE00 16.1

tritanopia

#efef00 · ΔE00 28.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugared Peach at ΔE00 0.427: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sugared PeachΔE00 0.427 · #fddcc6
  • Peak SeasonΔE00 0.762 · #ffdfc9
  • Beach TrailΔE00 0.819 · #fedeca
  • Fire MistΔE00 0.951 · #fbd9c4
  • Salmon CreekΔE00 0.954 · #feddc5
  • Autumn BloomΔE00 1.081 · #ffe0cb
  • Whispering PeachΔE00 1.166 · #fedcc3
  • Unbleached SilkΔE00 1.176 · #ffddca
  • Heavenly SongΔE00 1.443 · #fbd9c6
  • Shironeri SilkΔE00 1.48 · #feddcb
  • QuiltΔE00 1.553 · #fcd9c6
  • Porcelain TanΔE00 1.575 · #f7d8c4

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