Croissant

#c4ab86

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

#c4ab86

RGB

196, 171, 134

OKLCh

75.4% 0.058 77.4°

CIELAB (D50)

71.5, 5.3, 22.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

22 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 only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.4; on black, Lc -58.7. 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 10.5 and 10.5 and 19.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.21:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.52:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.52:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b7350 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

#c4ab86

protanopia

#aeae86 · ΔE00 10.5

deuteranopia

#b3b385 · ΔE00 10.5

tritanopia

#b8b800 · ΔE00 19.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTan Oak at ΔE00 0.669: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Tan OakΔE00 0.669 · #c2aa87
CamelbackΔE00 0.76 · #c5aa85
MiddlestoneΔE00 1.049 · #c7ab84
Pocket WatchΔE00 1.241 · #c2a781
PonyΔE00 1.3 · #c6aa81
Earth ChiΔE00 1.301 · #c7af88
HandwovenΔE00 1.37 · #bfa984
Symphony GoldΔE00 1.441 · #c0a887
Toasted GrainΔE00 1.51 · #c5a986
MindfulΔE00 1.525 · #c8ac82
Cappuccino FrothΔE00 1.525 · #c8b089
Dwarf RabbitΔE00 1.549 · #c8ac89

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