Fortune Cookie
#e0c5a1
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
#e0c5a1
RGB
224, 197, 161
OKLCh
83.7% 0.057 74.8°
CIELAB (D50)
81.2, 5.9, 21.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 29 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 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.0; on black, Lc -73.9. 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 11.2 and 11.3 and 21.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.66:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b7351 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e0c5a1
protanopia
#c8c8a1 · ΔE00 11.2
deuteranopia
#cdcda0 · ΔE00 11.3
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 21.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlender Reed at ΔE00 0.882: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Slender ReedΔE00 0.882 · #dec29f
- Natural Rice BeigeΔE00 0.95 · #dcc39f
- October BountyΔE00 0.965 · #e3c6a3
- Pure AlmondΔE00 0.972 · #dfc6a5
- Riviera SandΔE00 1.125 · #dfc6a0
- CanoeΔE00 1.183 · #ddc49e
- Gentle FawnΔE00 1.244 · #e6c9a4
- Hagar ShoresΔE00 1.273 · #e6c9a3
- Caramel MousseΔE00 1.33 · #e5caa4
- Faint FawnΔE00 1.389 · #e2c59c
- Light Corn YellowΔE00 1.461 · #e0c3a2
- EggheadΔE00 1.479 · #e6c7a2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.