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#d6c6b4

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

#d6c6b4

RGB

214, 198, 180

OKLCh

83.5% 0.030 70.7°

CIELAB (D50)

80.9, 3.6, 11.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 32 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 23% 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 29.3; on black, Lc -73.5. 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 8.3 and 8.7 and 19.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.67:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837464 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

#d6c6b4

protanopia

#c8c8b4 · ΔE00 8.3

deuteranopia

#cbcbb4 · ΔE00 8.7

tritanopia

#cece66 · ΔE00 19.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPastel Sand at ΔE00 0.465: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pastel SandΔE00 0.465 · #d5c6b4
  • Whisper PinkΔE00 0.562 · #d4c5b4
  • Beige ChalkΔE00 0.748 · #d6c5b4
  • Dry CreekΔE00 0.791 · #d8c7b6
  • Ivory RidgeΔE00 0.863 · #d9c9b8
  • Brazilian SandΔE00 0.907 · #d8c6b4
  • Clay PipeΔE00 0.916 · #d9c8b7
  • Avenue TanΔE00 0.999 · #d2c2b0
  • SandshellΔE00 1.075 · #d6c8b8
  • Manilla RopeΔE00 1.083 · #dac9b8
  • Wisp of CocoaΔE00 1.27 · #d9c6b2
  • Bongo DrumΔE00 1.276 · #d2c2b2

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