HueComb

Bisque

#ffe4c4

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

#ffe4c4

RGB

255, 228, 196

OKLCh

93.3% 0.051 71.8°

CIELAB (D50)

92.2, 6.0, 19.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 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 11.1; on black, Lc -93.0. 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 11.6 and 11.8 and 24.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.22:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.15:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.15:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7356 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

#ffe4c4

protanopia

#e7e7c4 · ΔE00 11.6

deuteranopia

#ececc3 · ΔE00 11.8

tritanopia

#f2f200 · ΔE00 24.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSatin Blush at ΔE00 0.676: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Satin BlushΔE00 0.676 · #ffe4c6
  • Fall StrawΔE00 0.699 · #fee3c5
  • Budder SkinΔE00 0.758 · #fce2c4
  • Sour TartsΔE00 0.993 · #fee5c8
  • Apricot WhisperΔE00 1.072 · #fae0c2
  • Antigua SunriseΔE00 1.172 · #ffe7c8
  • MessinesiΔE00 1.265 · #fee2be
  • Apple CrunchΔE00 1.266 · #fee5c9
  • Neutral PeachΔE00 1.474 · #ffe6c3
  • Orange GlowΔE00 1.513 · #ffe2bd
  • Subtle PeachΔE00 1.515 · #fae0c4
  • Flower CentreΔE00 1.548 · #fde6c6

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