HueComb

Liquid Gold

#fdc675

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

Hex

#fdc675

RGB

253, 198, 117

OKLCh

85.9% 0.117 75.8°

CIELAB (D50)

83.7, 13.6, 48.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 95% 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 25.3; on black, Lc -77.8. 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 16.1 and 16.4 and 20.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.55:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f6d0c 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

#fdc675

protanopia

#cdcd76 · ΔE00 16.1

deuteranopia

#d8d872 · ΔE00 16.4

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 20.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMead at ΔE00 0.514: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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