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#e4d4be

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

#e4d4be

RGB

228, 212, 190

OKLCh

87.7% 0.035 76.0°

CIELAB (D50)

85.8, 3.1, 13.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 61 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 32% 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 21.6; on black, Lc -81.8. 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 8.0 and 8.3 and 18.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#837561 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

#e4d4be

protanopia

#d6d6be · ΔE00 8.0

deuteranopia

#d9d9be · ΔE00 8.3

tritanopia

#dcdc70 · ΔE00 18.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGentle Slumber at ΔE00 0.454: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Gentle SlumberΔE00 0.454 · #e5d4be
  • FigurineΔE00 0.513 · #e4d5c0
  • ScallywagΔE00 0.774 · #e5d5bd
  • Fine White SandΔE00 0.777 · #e4d4c0
  • OysterΔE00 0.801 · #e3d3bf
  • Lotus PodΔE00 0.809 · #e7d7c2
  • Baked SconeΔE00 0.839 · #e5d3bc
  • ClambakeΔE00 0.878 · #e0d1bb
  • Antique BuffΔE00 0.913 · #e4d2bb
  • Floating FeatherΔE00 1.067 · #e9d8c2
  • Maple PecanΔE00 1.085 · #e3d1bb
  • Laguna BeachΔE00 1.123 · #e9d7c0

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