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#f5e6d3
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
#f5e6d3
RGB
245, 230, 211
OKLCh
93.2% 0.030 73.9°
CIELAB (D50)
92.1, 3.0, 11.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 89 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.1; on black, Lc -92.9. 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 7.5 and 7.9 and 17.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.14:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.14:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#827564 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
#f5e6d3
protanopia
#e8e8d3 · ΔE00 7.5
deuteranopia
#ebebd3 · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#eeee91 · ΔE00 17.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHalogen at ΔE00 0.216: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HalogenΔE00 0.216 · #f4e5d2
- Bali SandΔE00 0.6 · #f6e8d5
- White HyacinthΔE00 0.76 · #f3e5d1
- Dwindling DandelionΔE00 0.82 · #f9e9d6
- Spun JuteΔE00 0.849 · #f4e4cf
- Delicate LaceΔE00 0.859 · #f3e6d4
- Cotton ClubΔE00 0.899 · #f3e4d3
- Peach SurpriseΔE00 0.924 · #f3e3d1
- TenderΔE00 0.93 · #f7e8d7
- Dairy BelleΔE00 0.933 · #f4e7d4
- Melon TintΔE00 0.944 · #f8e7d4
- Ivory TasselΔE00 0.959 · #f8ead8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.