HueComb

Desert Dessert

#ffba6b

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

Hex

#ffba6b

RGB

255, 186, 107

OKLCh

83.8% 0.125 68.4°

CIELAB (D50)

80.9, 19.8, 49.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.6; on black, Lc -73.2. 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 20.0 and 20.7 and 24.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.68:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a86904 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

#ffba6b

protanopia

#c3c36c · ΔE00 20.0

deuteranopia

#d1d167 · ΔE00 20.7

tritanopia

#e0e000 · ΔE00 24.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYellow Polka Dot at ΔE00 0.775: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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