HueComb

Gentle Caress

#fcd7ba

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

#fcd7ba

RGB

252, 215, 186

OKLCh

90.3% 0.057 60.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.6, 10.2, 19.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 23 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 90% 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 17.1; on black, Lc -86.5. 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 15.6 and 15.9 and 27.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.35:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#917056 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

#fcd7ba

protanopia

#dcdcba · ΔE00 15.6

deuteranopia

#e3e3b9 · ΔE00 15.9

tritanopia

#eaea00 · ΔE00 27.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDelicate Dawn at ΔE00 0.446: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Delicate DawnΔE00 0.446 · #fed9bc
  • Thousand Needles SandΔE00 0.595 · #ffd9bb
  • Durazno PalidoΔE00 0.699 · #ffd8bb
  • Tender PeachΔE00 0.844 · #f8d5b8
  • CurtsyΔE00 1.129 · #ffd6b8
  • Persian MelonΔE00 1.207 · #ffdcbf
  • Beyond the PaleΔE00 1.272 · #f7d6ba
  • Serene PeachΔE00 1.36 · #f5d3b7
  • KarryΔE00 1.375 · #fedcc1
  • Sparkle GlowΔE00 1.387 · #f5d2b5
  • Peach PuffΔE00 1.487 · #ffdab9
  • Fresh Baked BreadΔE00 1.494 · #f8d7be

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