Halo
#e2c392
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
#e2c392
RGB
226, 195, 146
OKLCh
83.2% 0.073 78.9°
CIELAB (D50)
80.6, 6.3, 29.0
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 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.9; on black, Lc -72.9. 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 10.8 and 10.9 and 19.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7244 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
#e2c392
protanopia
#c7c792 · ΔE00 10.8
deuteranopia
#cdcd91 · ΔE00 10.9
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 19.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRipe Wheat at ΔE00 0.368: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ripe WheatΔE00 0.368 · #e3c494
- BirdseedΔE00 0.752 · #e2c28e
- Bird’s-Eye MapleΔE00 0.772 · #e4c495
- Cosy CoverΔE00 0.801 · #e4c38f
- ChamomileΔE00 0.88 · #e4c697
- Dirty BlondeΔE00 0.927 · #dfc393
- Venice SquareΔE00 0.968 · #e6c591
- LiraΔE00 0.974 · #e2c28d
- Corn ChowderΔE00 0.983 · #e1c595
- SequinΔE00 1.043 · #e1c28d
- Bungalow MapleΔE00 1.084 · #e4c590
- SideshowΔE00 1.182 · #e2c591
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.