HueComb

Chai Latte

#f9cba0

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

#f9cba0

RGB

249, 203, 160

OKLCh

87.2% 0.077 64.6°

CIELAB (D50)

85.0, 12.6, 28.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.1; on black, Lc -80.2. 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 15.8 and 16.2 and 25.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.49:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.08:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.08:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#986e46 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

#f9cba0

protanopia

#d1d1a0 · ΔE00 15.8

deuteranopia

#dada9e · ΔE00 16.2

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 25.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLion Cub at ΔE00 0.733: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Lion CubΔE00 0.733 · #f9cda4
  • SundownΔE00 0.798 · #f5c99e
  • Apricot SherbetΔE00 0.942 · #fbcd9f
  • Orpiment YellowΔE00 0.967 · #f9c89b
  • Cactus BloomsΔE00 0.994 · #f6c79d
  • Peach BeachΔE00 1.22 · #fdcfa1
  • Orange BlastΔE00 1.334 · #f5c99b
  • Sheer ApricotΔE00 1.442 · #f3c99d
  • Melon SprinkleΔE00 1.486 · #ffcd9d
  • Orange CanyonΔE00 1.568 · #fdd1a4
  • Avid ApricotΔE00 1.624 · #f4c69f
  • Opalescent CoralΔE00 1.678 · #ffd2a9

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