HueComb

Goldfrapp

#ceb790

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

#ceb790

RGB

206, 183, 144

OKLCh

78.9% 0.059 80.7°

CIELAB (D50)

75.7, 4.2, 23.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 30 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 36% 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 37.3; on black, Lc -65.1. 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 9.4 and 9.4 and 19.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.94:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#89744f 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

#ceb790

protanopia

#baba90 · ΔE00 9.4

deuteranopia

#bebe8f · ΔE00 9.4

tritanopia

#c3c300 · ΔE00 19.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStacked Limestone at ΔE00 0.69: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Stacked LimestoneΔE00 0.69 · #d1b992
  • Almond BuffΔE00 0.774 · #ccb590
  • Flier LieΔE00 0.778 · #cdb891
  • Palmetto BluffΔE00 0.844 · #ceb993
  • Warm and ToastyΔE00 0.849 · #cbb68f
  • Foothill DriveΔE00 0.924 · #cab48e
  • ThermosΔE00 1.106 · #d2bb95
  • GranivorousΔE00 1.254 · #d0b690
  • VermicelliΔE00 1.264 · #d1b791
  • Windsor ToffeeΔE00 1.296 · #ccb490
  • CrepeΔE00 1.395 · #d4bc94
  • Smooth BeechΔE00 1.397 · #d3bb96

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