HueComb

Fricassée

#ffe6c2

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

#ffe6c2

RGB

255, 230, 194

OKLCh

93.6% 0.054 76.9°

CIELAB (D50)

92.7, 4.9, 20.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 38 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 10.3; on black, Lc -93.8. 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 10.3 and 10.4 and 22.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7353 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

#ffe6c2

protanopia

#e9e9c2 · ΔE00 10.3

deuteranopia

#eeeec1 · ΔE00 10.4

tritanopia

#f3f300 · ΔE00 22.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNeutral Peach at ΔE00 0.311: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Neutral PeachΔE00 0.311 · #ffe6c3
  • Cheese PowderΔE00 0.831 · #ffe4be
  • Spanish CreamΔE00 0.962 · #fce5c0
  • Candle GlowΔE00 0.965 · #ffe8c3
  • MannaΔE00 0.979 · #fae2be
  • Semolina PuddingΔE00 1.025 · #ffe8c7
  • Peach SmoothieΔE00 1.129 · #ffe5bd
  • Burnished CreamΔE00 1.17 · #fce5bf
  • Flower CentreΔE00 1.189 · #fde6c6
  • Barely PeachΔE00 1.197 · #ffe9c7
  • Chess IvoryΔE00 1.244 · #ffe9c5
  • MessinesiΔE00 1.313 · #fee2be

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