HueComb

Young Apricot

#fcd8b5

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

#fcd8b5

RGB

252, 216, 181

OKLCh

90.4% 0.061 66.1°

CIELAB (D50)

88.8, 9.2, 22.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 27 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 16.9; on black, Lc -86.8. 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 14.3 and 14.4 and 25.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.34:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#917151 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

#fcd8b5

protanopia

#dcdcb5 · ΔE00 14.3

deuteranopia

#e3e3b4 · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 25.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSandy Tan at ΔE00 0.379: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sandy TanΔE00 0.379 · #fdd9b5
  • Sandy BayΔE00 0.607 · #fad7b3
  • Alishan DawnΔE00 0.806 · #fedab9
  • Pandora’s BoxΔE00 0.809 · #fedbb7
  • Peach PuffΔE00 0.983 · #ffdab9
  • Alphabet SoupΔE00 1.004 · #fedcba
  • Venus DeathtrapΔE00 1.134 · #fed8b1
  • Peachy SandΔE00 1.149 · #ffdcb7
  • Aged IvoryΔE00 1.183 · #f9d5af
  • Christmas RoseΔE00 1.19 · #ffddbb
  • Three Ring CircusΔE00 1.2 · #fddbb6
  • Acini di PepeΔE00 1.203 · #ffd8b1

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