Delightful Pastry
#f9e7c8
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
#f9e7c8
RGB
249, 231, 200
OKLCh
93.5% 0.045 81.3°
CIELAB (D50)
92.5, 2.8, 17.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 76 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 10.5; on black, Lc -93.6. 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 8.1 and 8.3 and 18.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857559 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
#f9e7c8
protanopia
#e9e9c8 · ΔE00 8.1
deuteranopia
#ececc7 · ΔE00 8.3
tritanopia
#f0f065 · ΔE00 18.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWashed in Light at ΔE00 0.378: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Washed in LightΔE00 0.378 · #fae8c8
- Golden BuffΔE00 0.383 · #f8e6c8
- Gabriel’s TorchΔE00 0.398 · #f8e6c6
- FlaxseedΔE00 0.677 · #f7e6c6
- Lightweight BeigeΔE00 0.79 · #f6e5c5
- SpotlightΔE00 1.05 · #faeacd
- Capetown CreamΔE00 1.059 · #fcebce
- Spanish LaceΔE00 1.059 · #fce8ca
- Light CurdΔE00 1.062 · #f9e9c9
- Milk and HoneyΔE00 1.106 · #f7e4c2
- Tea LightΔE00 1.176 · #f8e4c2
- Cameo CreamΔE00 1.204 · #f3e2c3
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.