Papaya
#fe985c
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#fe985c
RGB
254, 152, 92
OKLCh
77.5% 0.144 49.9°
CIELAB (D50)
73.0, 35.5, 48.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 41.4; on black, Lc -60.8. 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 28.8 and 30.5 and 34.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.86:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.86:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc5c18 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#fe985c
protanopia
#a8a85d · ΔE00 28.8
deuteranopia
#bebe55 · ΔE00 30.5
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 34.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRainbow Trout at ΔE00 0.49: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rainbow TroutΔE00 0.49 · #ff975c
- Indian PaintbrushΔE00 1.375 · #fa9761
- EncounterΔE00 1.483 · #ff9552
- Umezome PinkΔE00 1.56 · #fa9258
- Mock OrangeΔE00 1.738 · #ff9863
- Honey Carrot CakeΔE00 1.767 · #ff9955
- Brown SandΔE00 1.971 · #f7945f
- Fresh CantaloupeΔE00 1.989 · #ff9c68
- Peach CobblerΔE00 2.162 · #ffa167
- CloudberryΔE00 2.169 · #ffa168
- Atomic TangerineΔE00 2.186 · #ff9966
- Pastel OrangeΔE00 2.22 · #ff964f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.