Apricotta
#d8a48f
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d8a48f
RGB
216, 164, 143
OKLCh
76.2% 0.069 43.0°
CIELAB (D50)
71.9, 17.7, 18.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.8; on black, Lc -59.3. 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 21.1 and 21.7 and 31.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6b58 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d8a48f
protanopia
#abab8f · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#b5b58d · ΔE00 21.7
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 31.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRosettee at ΔE00 0.726: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- RosetteeΔE00 0.726 · #d7a491
- Shetland PonyΔE00 1.023 · #d6a48d
- Fortune’s PrizeΔE00 1.395 · #daa994
- North RimΔE00 1.437 · #d8a892
- CedarvilleΔE00 1.721 · #dda896
- Rose TattooΔE00 1.945 · #e1a890
- Tiffany RoseΔE00 2.089 · #d2a694
- The BoulevardΔE00 2.143 · #d0a492
- Arizona DustΔE00 2.18 · #ddab93
- Perrigloss TanΔE00 2.21 · #ddaa99
- Coronado DunesΔE00 2.242 · #d5a68d
- California CoralΔE00 2.263 · #e3aa94
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.