HueComb

Soba

#d1b49f

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

#d1b49f

RGB

209, 180, 159

OKLCh

79.0% 0.044 58.0°

CIELAB (D50)

75.5, 8.4, 14.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 31% 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 37.6; on black, Lc -64.8. 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 14.1 and 14.7 and 25.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.96:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c725e 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

#d1b49f

protanopia

#b8b89f · ΔE00 14.1

deuteranopia

#bdbd9e · ΔE00 14.7

tritanopia

#c3c300 · ΔE00 25.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMilk Toast at ΔE00 0.765: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Milk ToastΔE00 0.765 · #d1b39c
  • Bauhaus BuffΔE00 0.998 · #cfb49e
  • Roasted AlmondΔE00 1.081 · #d2b49c
  • Kraft PaperΔE00 1.533 · #d5b59c
  • Cocoa DustΔE00 1.545 · #d0b7a4
  • Warm AlpacaΔE00 1.557 · #cdb49f
  • MaikoΔE00 1.762 · #d8baa6
  • FrappéΔE00 1.806 · #ceae99
  • Tower TanΔE00 1.818 · #d5b59b
  • CashmereΔE00 1.839 · #d1b399
  • TreelessΔE00 2.069 · #d1b7a7
  • Sedona PinkΔE00 2.162 · #d6b8a7

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