HueComb

Dune

#d5c0a1

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

#d5c0a1

RGB

213, 192, 161

OKLCh

81.8% 0.048 77.6°

CIELAB (D50)

78.9, 4.1, 18.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 35 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 32.4; on black, Lc -70.2. 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 9.6 and 9.8 and 21.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.77:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#877457 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

#d5c0a1

protanopia

#c3c3a1 · ΔE00 9.6

deuteranopia

#c6c6a0 · ΔE00 9.8

tritanopia

#cbcb00 · 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 0.766: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Bluff StoneΔE00 0.766 · #d2bd9e
  • EireΔE00 1.081 · #d2be9d
  • Polished MarbleΔE00 1.155 · #d0bc9d
  • Birch BeigeΔE00 1.174 · #d9c3a1
  • Country LinenΔE00 1.174 · #d7c2a6
  • Pony TailΔE00 1.188 · #d2bc9b
  • Buckram BindingΔE00 1.254 · #d9c3a6
  • Almond LatteΔE00 1.265 · #d6c0a4
  • Treasure MapΔE00 1.309 · #d0bb9d
  • BiscottiΔE00 1.312 · #d8c3a7
  • Pale WheatΔE00 1.343 · #d9c29f
  • GaiaΔE00 1.351 · #d3bc9e

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