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#e0bb95

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

#e0bb95

RGB

224, 187, 149

OKLCh

81.5% 0.066 67.4°

CIELAB (D50)

78.5, 9.8, 24.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.2; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 14.2 and 14.3 and 23.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#92704d 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

#e0bb95

protanopia

#c0c095 · ΔE00 14.2

deuteranopia

#c7c794 · ΔE00 14.3

tritanopia

#cece00 · ΔE00 23.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHoney Nougat at ΔE00 0.309: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Honey NougatΔE00 0.309 · #e0bb96
  • PanchoΔE00 0.58 · #dfb992
  • Friar TuckΔE00 0.647 · #ddb994
  • Only NaturalΔE00 0.988 · #e1bc99
  • Cane Sugar GlazeΔE00 1.245 · #ddbb99
  • LaksaΔE00 1.521 · #e6bf95
  • TostadaΔE00 1.623 · #e3c19c
  • Nutmeg GlowΔE00 1.689 · #d8b691
  • More CowbellΔE00 1.703 · #dfbf9a
  • Feline FrolicΔE00 1.756 · #dbb694
  • Painted AshΔE00 1.867 · #ddba8f
  • Pan TostadoΔE00 1.959 · #e8be99

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