Creamy Peach

#f4a384

An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#f4a384

RGB

244, 163, 132

OKLCh

78.8% 0.106 41.7°

CIELAB (D50)

74.7, 28.4, 29.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.9; on black, Lc -63.4. 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 25.1 and 26.9 and 36.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.02:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.42:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.42:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ae6346 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

#f4a384

protanopia

#afaf85 · ΔE00 25.1

deuteranopia

#bfbf81 · ΔE00 26.9

tritanopia

#d0d000 · ΔE00 36.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTropical Paradise at ΔE00 1.229: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Tropical ParadiseΔE00 1.229 · #f7a082
  • Lugganath OrangeΔE00 1.784 · #f7a58b
  • Papaya PunchΔE00 1.881 · #fca07f
  • MameyΔE00 1.974 · #eba180
  • Cumquat CreamΔE00 2.001 · #f19b7d
  • Citrus HillΔE00 2.045 · #f9a78d
  • October HazeΔE00 2.225 · #f8ac8c
  • Orchid OrangeΔE00 2.247 · #ffa180
  • Super SepiaΔE00 2.278 · #ffaa88
  • Coral SilkΔE00 2.287 · #f2a37d
  • Peach FizzΔE00 2.448 · #ffa883
  • Simply CoralΔE00 2.508 · #fbad90

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.