HueComb

Blushing Cinnamon

#ffbf99

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

Hex

#ffbf99

RGB

255, 191, 153

OKLCh

85.4% 0.090 51.9°

CIELAB (D50)

82.7, 20.3, 28.6

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 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 20.9 and 21.8 and 30.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.60:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a36945 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

#ffbf99

protanopia

#c8c899 · ΔE00 20.9

deuteranopia

#d4d497 · ΔE00 21.8

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 30.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHappy Prawn at ΔE00 0.287: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Happy PrawnΔE00 0.287 · #ffbe98
  • Peach EncounterΔE00 0.748 · #febc96
  • Apricot Iced TeaΔE00 0.749 · #fbbe99
  • Coral GableΔE00 1.12 · #ffc39e
  • Sunset CruiseΔE00 1.142 · #ffbe94
  • Esprit PeachΔE00 1.571 · #ffc49d
  • Wispy WhiteΔE00 1.731 · #ffc196
  • Fuzzy PeachΔE00 1.819 · #ffbb8f
  • Coral WispΔE00 1.823 · #feb890
  • Tomorrow’s CoralΔE00 1.858 · #ffc5a3
  • Cream PuffΔE00 1.867 · #ffbb99
  • Red PerfumeΔE00 1.893 · #f6b894

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