HueComb

Peach Beach

#fdcfa1

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

#fdcfa1

RGB

253, 207, 161

OKLCh

88.3% 0.079 66.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.4, 12.2, 29.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 20.9; on black, Lc -82.5. 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 15.4 and 15.8 and 24.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#986f43 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

#fdcfa1

protanopia

#d5d5a1 · ΔE00 15.4

deuteranopia

#dede9f · ΔE00 15.8

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 24.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Sherbet at ΔE00 0.461: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Apricot SherbetΔE00 0.461 · #fbcd9f
  • Orange CanyonΔE00 0.63 · #fdd1a4
  • Atoll SandΔE00 0.771 · #ffcf9e
  • AffinityΔE00 0.787 · #fed2a5
  • Melon SprinkleΔE00 1.024 · #ffcd9d
  • Chai LatteΔE00 1.22 · #f9cba0
  • Apricot Ice CreamΔE00 1.236 · #f8cc9c
  • Maple BeigeΔE00 1.254 · #fad0a1
  • Tropical FruitΔE00 1.269 · #fdd3a7
  • Apricot FoolΔE00 1.343 · #ffd2a0
  • Neon CloudΔE00 1.379 · #ffd4a9
  • Lion CubΔE00 1.386 · #f9cda4

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