Bellini
#f4c9b1
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
#f4c9b1
RGB
244, 201, 177
OKLCh
86.7% 0.059 50.8°
CIELAB (D50)
84.3, 13.2, 18.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.1; on black, Lc -79.1. 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 18.2 and 18.7 and 29.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.52:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#956e59 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
#f4c9b1
protanopia
#ceceb1 · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#d7d7b0 · ΔE00 18.7
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 29.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Cream at ΔE00 0.592: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- French CreamΔE00 0.592 · #f2c9b1
- Cape SandsΔE00 1.384 · #f6cdb8
- Biscuit CreamΔE00 1.655 · #f9ccb7
- TacoΔE00 1.663 · #f3c7b3
- Ibis PinkΔE00 1.684 · #fbd0b9
- Sweet PastelΔE00 1.783 · #edc8b1
- Butterfly WingΔE00 1.892 · #f8cfb4
- Apricot LilyΔE00 1.899 · #fecfb5
- SiestaΔE00 1.929 · #f0c3a7
- Pumpkin MousseΔE00 1.939 · #f2c3a7
- Bleached ApricotΔE00 1.971 · #fbcaad
- Flip-FlopΔE00 2.001 · #f2c4a7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.