HueComb

Fabulous Fawn

#e5c1a3

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

#e5c1a3

RGB

229, 193, 163

OKLCh

83.5% 0.058 61.7°

CIELAB (D50)

80.7, 10.0, 20.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.8; on black, Lc -73.1. 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 15.3 and 15.5 and 25.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.68:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#917055 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

#e5c1a3

protanopia

#c5c5a3 · ΔE00 15.3

deuteranopia

#cccca2 · ΔE00 15.5

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 25.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPueblo Sand at ΔE00 0.587: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pueblo SandΔE00 0.587 · #e7c3a4
  • Eggshell PaperΔE00 0.838 · #e2be9f
  • Toasted CoconutΔE00 1.123 · #e9c2a1
  • Buttercup YellowΔE00 1.187 · #e3c2a3
  • Peach LatteΔE00 1.228 · #e7c19f
  • Library CardΔE00 1.247 · #e6c19f
  • Adobe SouthΔE00 1.431 · #e5c1a7
  • Tiny CalfΔE00 1.486 · #e0bfa5
  • Bronze SandΔE00 1.533 · #e6be9c
  • Apricot IllusionΔE00 1.603 · #e2c3a6
  • Apple BlossomΔE00 1.677 · #ddbca0
  • Strawberry MaltΔE00 1.717 · #e0c1a7

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