HueComb

Candle Glow

#ffe8c3

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

#ffe8c3

RGB

255, 232, 195

OKLCh

94.0% 0.054 79.7°

CIELAB (D50)

93.2, 4.0, 21.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 37 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 9.5; on black, Lc -94.7. 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 9.4 and 9.5 and 22.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.58:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.58:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887452 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

#ffe8c3

protanopia

#ebebc3 · ΔE00 9.4

deuteranopia

#efefc2 · ΔE00 9.5

tritanopia

#f4f400 · ΔE00 22.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChess Ivory at ΔE00 0.43: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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