HueComb

Dolly Cheek

#fcc9b6

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

#fcc9b6

RGB

252, 201, 182

OKLCh

87.6% 0.064 41.4°

CIELAB (D50)

85.2, 16.7, 16.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 92% 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 22.7; on black, Lc -80.6. 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 20.7 and 21.6 and 33.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.48:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9a6c5b 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

#fcc9b6

protanopia

#d0d0b6 · ΔE00 20.7

deuteranopia

#dadab4 · ΔE00 21.6

tritanopia

#e4e400 · ΔE00 33.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMalibu Peach at ΔE00 0.779: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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