HueComb

Malt

#ddcfbc

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

#ddcfbc

RGB

221, 207, 188

OKLCh

86.1% 0.030 75.7°

CIELAB (D50)

83.9, 2.7, 11.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 50 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 25% 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 24.6; on black, Lc -78.6. 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 7.2 and 7.5 and 17.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#827564 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

#ddcfbc

protanopia

#d1d1bc · ΔE00 7.2

deuteranopia

#d3d3bc · ΔE00 7.5

tritanopia

#d6d67d · ΔE00 17.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSnip of Tannin at ΔE00 0.239: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Snip of TanninΔE00 0.239 · #dccebb
  • Dainty LaceΔE00 0.485 · #decfbb
  • Palest SatinΔE00 0.661 · #dccdb9
  • Maison BlancheΔE00 0.814 · #dfd2bf
  • Sand DollarΔE00 0.833 · #dccdbb
  • Grain of RiceΔE00 0.841 · #dfd2c0
  • Cream in My CoffeeΔE00 0.965 · #dfd2be
  • ErosionΔE00 0.973 · #ddd1bf
  • Studio ClayΔE00 1.067 · #d9ccb8
  • Cream and SugarΔE00 1.166 · #ddcfb9
  • ClambakeΔE00 1.175 · #e0d1bb
  • Brig O’doonΔE00 1.231 · #ddcfbf

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