Cream Puff
#ffbb99
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffbb99
RGB
255, 187, 153
OKLCh
84.7% 0.091 47.6°
CIELAB (D50)
81.7, 22.3, 27.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 28.3; on black, Lc -74.7. 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 22.1 and 23.2 and 32.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.64:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a56848 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
#ffbb99
protanopia
#c4c499 · ΔE00 22.1
deuteranopia
#d2d297 · ΔE00 23.2
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 32.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarotene at ΔE00 1.076: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CaroteneΔE00 1.076 · #fdb793
- Melon SorbetΔE00 1.348 · #f8b797
- Peach EncounterΔE00 1.443 · #febc96
- Happy PrawnΔE00 1.656 · #ffbe98
- Peach ParfaitΔE00 1.838 · #f6b895
- Coral WispΔE00 1.852 · #feb890
- Blushing CinnamonΔE00 1.867 · #ffbf99
- Pallid OrangeΔE00 1.925 · #fcb99d
- Mandys PinkΔE00 1.966 · #f5b799
- Red PerfumeΔE00 2.003 · #f6b894
- Guava JuiceΔE00 2.072 · #f4b694
- Apricot Iced TeaΔE00 2.09 · #fbbe99
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.