Treasure Map

#d0bb9d

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

#d0bb9d

RGB

208, 187, 157

OKLCh

80.2% 0.047 76.7°

CIELAB (D50)

77.1, 4.3, 18.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

31 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 28% 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 35.2; on black, Lc -67.4. 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 9.8 and 10.0 and 21.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.86:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#877458 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

#d0bb9d

protanopia

#bebe9d · ΔE00 9.8

deuteranopia

#c1c19c · ΔE00 10.0

tritanopia

#c6c600 · ΔE00 21.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBluff Stone at ΔE00 0.602: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Bluff StoneΔE00 0.602 · #d2bd9e
Polished MarbleΔE00 0.661 · #d0bc9d
WildwoodΔE00 0.713 · #cdb99b
High NoonΔE00 0.813 · #cfb999
Row House TanΔE00 0.832 · #d2bb9d
GaiaΔE00 0.902 · #d3bc9e
Bird’s NestΔE00 0.921 · #cfbb9b
Pony TailΔE00 0.954 · #d2bc9b
Cosy WoolΔE00 1.282 · #d1b99b
DuneΔE00 1.309 · #d5c0a1
My Guinea PigΔE00 1.315 · #cbb698
Country RubbleΔE00 1.332 · #d0bca2

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