Larb Gai

#dfc6aa

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

#dfc6aa

RGB

223, 198, 170

OKLCh

84.0% 0.047 70.3°

CIELAB (D50)

81.5, 5.9, 17.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 27 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 37% 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 28.5; on black, Lc -74.4. 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 11.6 and 11.9 and 23.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8a7359 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

#dfc6aa

protanopia

#c9c9aa · ΔE00 11.6

deuteranopia

#cecea9 · ΔE00 11.9

tritanopia

#d3d300 · ΔE00 23.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCliff’s View at ΔE00 0.494: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Cliff’s ViewΔE00 0.494 · #ddc5aa
  • Sandy BeachesΔE00 0.734 · #ddc6ab
  • My LoveΔE00 0.798 · #e1c6a8
  • Craft JugglerΔE00 0.967 · #e3c8aa
  • Persian FlatbreadΔE00 0.979 · #e1c7a8
  • Interactive CreamΔE00 1.079 · #e4caad
  • LouvreΔE00 1.207 · #ddc3a4
  • Sand MotifΔE00 1.27 · #ddc6a8
  • Elafonisi BeachΔE00 1.277 · #dac4a9
  • Grand SoireeΔE00 1.339 · #d9c2a8
  • Sienna DustΔE00 1.436 · #dcc4ac
  • Jacobean LaceΔE00 1.459 · #e4ccb0

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