Majestic Dune
#f3bc80
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f3bc80
RGB
243, 188, 128
OKLCh
83.2% 0.099 68.2°
CIELAB (D50)
80.3, 15.2, 38.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.4; on black, Lc -72.3. 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 17.1 and 17.7 and 23.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f6c30 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
#f3bc80
protanopia
#c3c380 · ΔE00 17.1
deuteranopia
#cece7e · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#d9d900 · ΔE00 23.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Yellow at ΔE00 0.87: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Apricot YellowΔE00 0.87 · #f7bd81
- Melon BallsΔE00 0.897 · #f2bd85
- Asagi YellowΔE00 1.142 · #f7bb7d
- Rich HoneyΔE00 1.395 · #f9bc7d
- Ash YellowΔE00 1.485 · #f0bd7e
- Rosy SkinΔE00 1.674 · #f7b978
- Apricot CreamΔE00 1.796 · #f1bd89
- Eastern AmberΔE00 1.799 · #ebb67e
- Surprise AmberΔE00 1.804 · #efb57a
- Amber DawnΔE00 1.824 · #f6bc77
- Mom’s Apple PieΔE00 1.978 · #eab781
- Golden ChimeΔE00 1.982 · #eeb574
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.