Sparkling Champagne
#efcf98
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
#efcf98
RGB
239, 207, 152
OKLCh
86.9% 0.080 80.8°
CIELAB (D50)
84.9, 6.0, 31.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 30 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 uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.2; on black, Lc -80.0. 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 10.5 and 10.7 and 19.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#90723e 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
#efcf98
protanopia
#d3d398 · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#d9d997 · ΔE00 10.7
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 19.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBright Clove at ΔE00 0.725: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bright CloveΔE00 0.725 · #efcf9b
- Cotton MuslinΔE00 0.804 · #eed09c
- Willow-Flower YellowΔE00 0.906 · #f0d29d
- SunlightΔE00 0.93 · #ebcd95
- MaderaΔE00 0.983 · #eed09d
- MarquisetteΔE00 1.154 · #f3d49d
- Mellow SunΔE00 1.189 · #f5d39c
- Sunbeam YellowΔE00 1.193 · #f0d39d
- Honey ButterΔE00 1.235 · #f5d29b
- Golden WestΔE00 1.26 · #e9ca94
- Knightley StrawΔE00 1.265 · #edcc99
- BeeswingΔE00 1.312 · #f5d297
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.