HueComb

Blossom

#fee9d8

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

#fee9d8

RGB

254, 233, 216

OKLCh

94.6% 0.032 61.4°

CIELAB (D50)

93.7, 5.4, 11.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 28 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 94% 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 8.4; on black, Lc -95.8. 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 10.3 and 11.0 and 23.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.86:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.86:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#867364 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

#fee9d8

protanopia

#ebebd8 · ΔE00 10.3

deuteranopia

#efefd7 · ΔE00 11.0

tritanopia

#f4f46e · ΔE00 23.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMacaroon Cream at ΔE00 0.486: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Macaroon CreamΔE00 0.486 · #fee8d6
  • FlowerbedΔE00 0.561 · #ffebda
  • Guiding StarΔE00 0.841 · #fee9da
  • SerenadeΔE00 1.07 · #fce9d7
  • Mood LightingΔE00 1.143 · #ffe7d5
  • Winthrop PeachΔE00 1.169 · #fde6d6
  • Poppy CrepeΔE00 1.261 · #fbe9d8
  • Naive PeachΔE00 1.308 · #fce7d3
  • Peach FadeΔE00 1.387 · #fce9d6
  • Breakfast BiscuitΔE00 1.555 · #f6e3d3
  • Warm BreadΔE00 1.576 · #f9e6d3
  • Aria IvoryΔE00 1.61 · #f9e8d8

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