HueComb

Semolina

#c7ab8b

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

#c7ab8b

RGB

199, 171, 139

OKLCh

75.8% 0.055 70.6°

CIELAB (D50)

71.9, 7.0, 20.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 33% 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 42.9; on black, Lc -59.3. 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 12.4 and 12.5 and 21.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c7254 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

#c7ab8b

protanopia

#aeae8b · ΔE00 12.4

deuteranopia

#b4b48a · ΔE00 12.5

tritanopia

#bab900 · ΔE00 21.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDwarf Rabbit at ΔE00 1.009: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Dwarf RabbitΔE00 1.009 · #c8ac89
  • Townhall TanΔE00 1.155 · #c3aa8c
  • Toasted GrainΔE00 1.161 · #c5a986
  • Perfect TanΔE00 1.373 · #cbac88
  • Palomino TanΔE00 1.547 · #c2aa8d
  • Coastal SandΔE00 1.551 · #c9a985
  • Cork WedgeΔE00 1.642 · #c1a98a
  • Light Pumpkin BrownΔE00 1.681 · #c2a585
  • Spanish SandΔE00 1.705 · #cab08e
  • Dover PlainsΔE00 1.736 · #ccaf92
  • Uncommon CoirΔE00 1.763 · #c7ab90
  • Toffee TanΔE00 1.814 · #c8a883

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