Rajah
#fbab60
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fbab60
RGB
251, 171, 96
OKLCh
80.5% 0.131 62.3°
CIELAB (D50)
76.9, 25.1, 50.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 93% 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 35.8; on black, Lc -66.7. 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 23.2 and 24.1 and 27.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af6505 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
#fbab60
protanopia
#b6b661 · ΔE00 23.2
deuteranopia
#c7c75b · ΔE00 24.1
tritanopia
#d7d700 · ΔE00 27.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDreamy Sunset at ΔE00 0.738: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dreamy SunsetΔE00 0.738 · #ffad61
- Mango SalsaΔE00 1.221 · #ffb066
- Sailing TangerineΔE00 1.411 · #ffa857
- Echinoidea ThornsΔE00 1.602 · #ffa756
- Soul SideΔE00 1.672 · #ffaa55
- Burning FlameΔE00 1.739 · #ffb162
- Vintage OrangeΔE00 1.748 · #ffb05f
- Ginger MilkΔE00 1.843 · #f7a454
- ApricotΔE00 1.948 · #ffb16d
- Downy FeatherΔE00 2.024 · #feaa66
- Gemini Mustard MomentoΔE00 2.098 · #fca750
- Blazing AutumnΔE00 2.181 · #f3ad63
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.