HueComb

Butterscotch Cake

#f1c882

An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f1c882

RGB

241, 200, 130

OKLCh

85.3% 0.100 80.2°

CIELAB (D50)

83.1, 8.6, 40.6

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 uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.2; on black, Lc -76.9. 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 12.5 and 12.8 and 18.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.58:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#967029 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

#f1c882

protanopia

#cdcd82 · ΔE00 12.5

deuteranopia

#d5d580 · ΔE00 12.8

tritanopia

#dddd00 · ΔE00 18.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBad Hair Day at ΔE00 0.341: 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.