Maiden’s Blush
#f3d3bf
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
#f3d3bf
RGB
243, 211, 191
OKLCh
88.8% 0.045 54.0°
CIELAB (D50)
86.9, 9.3, 14.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 19.8; on black, Lc -83.6. 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 14.9 and 15.7 and 28.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.41:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d715f 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
#f3d3bf
protanopia
#d7d7bf · ΔE00 14.9
deuteranopia
#ddddbe · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#e4e400 · ΔE00 28.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDreamsicle at ΔE00 0.619: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- DreamsicleΔE00 0.619 · #f5d5c2
- Budding PeachΔE00 0.644 · #f3d4bf
- Desert MesaΔE00 0.992 · #efcfbc
- Harvest WreathΔE00 1.007 · #f7d7c4
- Porcelain TanΔE00 1.142 · #f7d8c4
- Resort SunriseΔE00 1.323 · #f4d7c5
- Desert FieldΔE00 1.459 · #efcdb8
- Canter PeachΔE00 1.472 · #f6d3bb
- Only YesterdayΔE00 1.52 · #f4d1b9
- Fire MistΔE00 1.564 · #fbd9c4
- Aristocrat PeachΔE00 1.576 · #ecceb9
- Melon PinkΔE00 1.578 · #f1d4c4
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.