Pastry
#f8deb8
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
#f8deb8
RGB
248, 222, 184
OKLCh
91.3% 0.057 77.3°
CIELAB (D50)
89.9, 5.1, 22.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 41 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 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.9; on black, Lc -88.8. 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 10.4 and 10.5 and 22.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a7350 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
#f8deb8
protanopia
#e1e1b8 · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#e6e6b7 · ΔE00 10.5
tritanopia
#ebeb00 · ΔE00 22.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHinoki at ΔE00 0.399: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- HinokiΔE00 0.399 · #f8ddb7
- Macadamia BeigeΔE00 0.694 · #f7dfba
- Time OutΔE00 0.716 · #fadeb8
- Lion’s RoarΔE00 0.938 · #f5dab3
- Tahitian SandΔE00 0.95 · #f5dcb4
- MannaΔE00 1.115 · #fae2be
- Jersey CreamΔE00 1.14 · #f5debb
- Alpine Berry YellowΔE00 1.143 · #f7e0ba
- Captivating CreamΔE00 1.239 · #f4d9b1
- GrappaΔE00 1.284 · #f5d9b1
- CurdΔE00 1.338 · #f8e1ba
- Evening SunΔE00 1.361 · #fddfb8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.