HueComb

Blank Canvas

#ffefd6

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

#ffefd6

RGB

255, 239, 214

OKLCh

95.8% 0.037 79.1°

CIELAB (D50)

95.2, 2.6, 14.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 50 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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.6. 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 7.6 and 7.9 and 17.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.13:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#83755f 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

#ffefd6

protanopia

#f1f1d6 · ΔE00 7.6

deuteranopia

#f4f4d6 · ΔE00 7.9

tritanopia

#f7f78c · ΔE00 17.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBiogenic Sand at ΔE00 0.354: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Biogenic SandΔE00 0.354 · #ffefd5
  • JunketΔE00 0.805 · #fbecd3
  • Popcorn BallΔE00 0.929 · #fcebd1
  • Go Go GlowΔE00 0.938 · #fcecd5
  • EscargotΔE00 0.959 · #fff1d8
  • Radiant GlowΔE00 0.991 · #ffeed2
  • Crushed CashewΔE00 1.121 · #ffedd5
  • May SunΔE00 1.126 · #faead0
  • Beaches of CancunΔE00 1.207 · #fbedd7
  • Pearly WhiteΔE00 1.278 · #feefd3
  • Country LaneΔE00 1.307 · #fcead1
  • Ivory InvitationΔE00 1.362 · #fcefd6

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