HueComb

Safflower

#fdae44

An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fdae44

RGB

253, 174, 68

OKLCh

80.9% 0.149 70.3°

CIELAB (D50)

77.6, 23.3, 63.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 97% 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 34.7; on black, Lc -67.8. 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 21.7 and 22.2 and 23.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.86:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a66900 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#fdae44

protanopia

#b9b945 · ΔE00 21.7

deuteranopia

#c9c93c · ΔE00 22.2

tritanopia

#dada00 · ΔE00 23.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMy Sin at ΔE00 0.138: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • My SinΔE00 0.138 · #fdae45
  • Mandarin SorbetΔE00 0.411 · #ffae42
  • ButterscotchΔE00 0.905 · #fdb147
  • Peach ButterΔE00 0.994 · #ffac3a
  • Blissful OrangeΔE00 1.066 · #ffac39
  • Splendour GoldΔE00 1.144 · #ffb14e
  • Koji OrangeΔE00 1.366 · #f6ad49
  • Agrellan BadlandΔE00 1.39 · #ffb347
  • Salted Caramel PopcornΔE00 1.401 · #fdb251
  • Pieces of EightΔE00 1.568 · #ffaf38
  • Bee ClusterΔE00 1.59 · #ffaa33
  • Tōmorokoshi CornΔE00 1.646 · #faa945

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