Curry Sauce
#be9e6f
An orange that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#be9e6f
RGB
190, 158, 111
OKLCh
71.7% 0.073 76.7°
CIELAB (D50)
67.2, 7.5, 29.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.5; on black, Lc -52.4. 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 11.6 and 11.7 and 18.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#907244 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
#be9e6f
protanopia
#a2a26f · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#a8a86e · ΔE00 11.7
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 18.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGould Gold at ΔE00 0.62: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Gould GoldΔE00 0.62 · #bc9d70
- Empire GoldΔE00 0.781 · #c19f6e
- Gilded PearΔE00 0.825 · #c09e6c
- Silence Is GoldenΔE00 1.205 · #c2a06d
- Welcome HomeΔE00 1.297 · #c09c6a
- Eastern GoldΔE00 1.484 · #b89b6c
- Hazed NutsΔE00 1.512 · #c39e6d
- TigerΔE00 1.543 · #be9c67
- New CorkΔE00 1.573 · #b89b6b
- Golden GranolaΔE00 1.601 · #b8996b
- Rustic CityΔE00 1.633 · #ba9a67
- Apple Sauce CakeΔE00 1.645 · #c2a377
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.