Fondant
#f4e2cf
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
#f4e2cf
RGB
244, 226, 207
OKLCh
92.2% 0.032 68.9°
CIELAB (D50)
91.0, 4.1, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 69 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.1; on black, Lc -90.9. 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 9.0 and 9.4 and 20.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847463 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
#f4e2cf
protanopia
#e4e4cf · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#e7e7cf · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#ebeb79 · ΔE00 20.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDessert Cream at ΔE00 0.577: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dessert CreamΔE00 0.577 · #f6e4d0
- Touch of TopazΔE00 0.646 · #f7e4d0
- Light CornΔE00 0.758 · #f3e2d1
- Orange ConfectionΔE00 0.786 · #f4e3d2
- Warm FuzziesΔE00 0.788 · #f6e2ce
- Peach SurpriseΔE00 0.826 · #f3e3d1
- CoralliteΔE00 0.827 · #f0dfcd
- Pearled IvoryΔE00 0.828 · #f0dfcc
- NaturaleΔE00 0.88 · #f1e0cf
- Follow the LeaderΔE00 1.003 · #f7e5d0
- Warm BreadΔE00 1.005 · #f9e6d3
- Toasted OatmealΔE00 1.018 · #efdecc
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.