Manhattan
#e2af80
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e2af80
RGB
226, 175, 128
OKLCh
79.0% 0.086 63.7°
CIELAB (D50)
75.4, 14.9, 31.6
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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.8; on black, Lc -64.6. 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 17.0 and 17.6 and 24.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.97:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6d3f 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
#e2af80
protanopia
#b6b680 · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#c0c07e · ΔE00 17.6
tritanopia
#caca00 · ΔE00 24.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Skills at ΔE00 1.012: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Soft SkillsΔE00 1.012 · #e4b185
- Imperial GoldΔE00 1.247 · #e0b181
- Buffalo TrailΔE00 1.406 · #e2ac78
- Sun Bleached OchreΔE00 1.426 · #e3ab7b
- Squash BisqueΔE00 1.578 · #e7b17c
- Wooden SwordΔE00 1.591 · #dfb07e
- Sweet CashewΔE00 1.754 · #ddaa77
- Bundle of WheatΔE00 1.77 · #e5b584
- Desert MistΔE00 1.773 · #deb181
- Thai Ice TeaΔE00 1.977 · #e0a878
- Golden PatinaΔE00 1.981 · #e4aa76
- Tanaris BeigeΔE00 1.987 · #e9b581
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.